July 9 (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated in its current form and reconfigured to ...

The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by ...

U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, is pushing the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee to convene an oversight ...

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill in the regular legislative session that would have improved local governments’ ...

Rep. Sam Graves’ bipartisan Fixing FEMA Act would give local first responders help they need to restore vital infrastructure.

On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

The FEMA Review Council is now diving into what responsibilities could be offloaded to states or other entities ...

As mandated by the executive order, the council’s final report will include a review of FEMA’s disaster response in the last four years, comparing FEMA’s response to how local and state agencies ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be eliminated in its current form and reconfigured to respond more effectively to natural disasters, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at ...

While President Donald Trump issued a federal disaster declaration for Texas within days after substantial flash flooding, ...

The president created the FEMA Review Council to recommend overhauling the agency. The meeting collides with FEMA's response ...

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, often comes up during the response period to a disaster, but what does the agency do, and how does it work?