When hurricanes approach the coast or wildfires tear through dry terrain, the first maps that most people see are the ones that track the danger itself. They show a storm’s path, the current fire ...

Federal funding for North Carolina disaster response and mitigation has dwindled in recent years and millions of dollars previously approved by U.S. officials still haven’t materialized — a scenario ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Unlike their crosstown rival Yankees, who brought back a virtually identical team and should be penciled in for another 94-win season (maybe even a little better with a full year from ...

The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing climate. They also highlight the now indispensable role of remote sensing ...

Senate Democrats and the White House remain locked in a standoff over proposed reforms to immigration operations nationwide, a dispute that could carry unintended consequences for disaster response ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to ...

SARANAC, Mich. — On a night when the Saranac High School girls basketball team celebrated Youth Night, senior Irelynn Pachulski and her teammates signed autographs for young girls in the school's ...

A key official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) indicated Wednesday that he believes the nation’s threshold for the declaration of major disasters is too low as various changes loom ...

Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease ...

Kristi Noem faces intensifying public scrutiny over her leadership of the Department of Homeland Security. Criticism of the former South Dakota governor has focused on her handling of the killing of ...