The government has adopted an outline of the envisaged agency, including its organizational structure and operations, ahead ...

The U.S. Senate has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI),the ranking member of the ...

From floods and forest fires to earthquakes—the frequency and intensity of natural disasters is increasing. This also means ...

With hurricane season still going strong, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says its disaster fund has run out of money. Traditionally, hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, ...

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

The federal government reimbursed the city of Austin $34.7 million for disaster-related expenses tied to COVID-19, winter storms Uri and Mara, and the 2015 floods.

Emergency management is a field dedicated to creating frameworks that help communities reduce their vulnerability to different types of disasters and cope with their aftereffects. These threats may ...

Emergency and disaster management professionals protect the nation's citizens during disasters and emergencies. There is a demand for new emergency management personnel. According to the Bureau of ...

Two Oklahoma nonprofits with disaster recovery missions are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. For nearly half a year, efforts from Catholic Charities ...

A federal judge has ordered FEMA to reinstate $200 million in grants to improve climate vulnerabilities of infrastructure ...