The Trump administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid ...

A public safety expert warned that the DHS shutdown could devastate local disaster response, with grant funding impacted as extreme weather threatens communities.

A government shutdown or funding lapse usually doesn’t impede ongoing disaster recovery efforts, current and former federal ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to former FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about how the Department of Homeland Security shutdown will affect operations at the disaster relief agency.

From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with ...

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 ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

Two dozen emergency managers from 15 states are meeting in Washington D.C. this week to talk about how to improve disaster response. The meeting of the National Association of Counties' ...

HAPPENS WITH THAT. IN THE MEANTIME, PREPARING STUDENTS TO BECOME LEADERS IN TIMES OF DISASTER. ONE OF OUR REGION’S UNIVERSITIES IS NOW COVERING AN ADVANCED DEGREE THAT’S EQUIPPING THE NEXT GENERATION ...

The study used data from EM-DAT, the largest public database of disaster-related deaths. Rather than focusing on individual catastrophes, the research uses a statistical approach designed to reveal ...

The wildfires in Los Angeles last year killed more than two dozen people and caused about $60 billion in damage. They were the costliest U.S. wildfires on record. And expensive disasters like fires, ...

COMING UP HERE, GUYS, IN JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. WE’LL SEE YOU IN A FEW. THANK YOU. RYAN. AND GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO DECLARED A DISASTER EMERGENCY AHEAD OF THIS STORM. HE SAID THE ...