In October 2025, after summer storms severely affected areas of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, approved Federal Emergency Management Assistance disaster relief aid for ...

A few days before a massive winter storm dumped snow and ice on a large swath of the country, disrupted travel and killed more than 30 people, a Florida congressman warned that the Federal Emergency ...

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) and Tammy Duckworth (D) have reintroduced a bill in Congress to reform how federal disaster relief is determined, after FEMA denied relief to Illinois following severe ...

Durbin and Duckworth reintroduce bill to reform FEMA's disaster aid process, ensuring fairer support for Illinois communities after storms and natural disasters.

The Trump administration is proposing massive changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We asked disaster experts ...

Slogging through a thick slop of mud and rock, Brian Hill passed the roof that Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters had just ripped off someone’s barn and dumped into his yard. Then he peered into the ...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., speaking as then-Florida's Director of Emergency Management during a news conference on April 4, 2021, in Palmetto, Fla. (AP) WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to ...

FEMA says it remains committed to ensuring equal access and equal benefits to disaster programs for survivors recovering from ...

Milwaukee County launched new in-person Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) teams on Oct. 2. DSA teams offer help applying for federal flood assistance at various pop-up locations (like libraries) ...

As of Jan. 28, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 18 disaster declaration applications awaiting President Donald Trump’s approval. Eleven are more than a month old and some date back to ...