PEMA director Randy Padfield sent a letter to his federal counterpart this month, calling for the agency to rethink the ...

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to ...

Even before President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom squared off over Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to ...

The city of Norman was prepared to build an automatic flood warning system this year, the same kind of early warning system ...

FEMA has typically found responding and recovering after an emergency-when its bud­get and personnel surge-easier than preparing for and mitigating potential future disasters.

The director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency sent his federal counterpart a letter this month urging the ...

There are several proposals that FEMA may try in future disasters, including houses made of shipping containers and one that can be shipped flat and unfolded upon delivery.

The nation’s emergency alerting system has evolved dramatically over many years, but few stakeholders believe the system is perfect or that its evolution is complete. Now the Federal Emergency ...

Senators say company plagiarized bid proposal to get $156 million FEMA contract The contract to deliver 30 million meals to Puerto Rico was later canceled.

Trump’s FEMA Proposals and Feud With Gavin Newsom Could Devastate California’s Disaster Response California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country.