FEMA looms large on Long Island, as data collated by Newsday’s editorial board shows. Over FEMA’s 46 years, the Island has ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency dramatically reorganized ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous ...

Late last year, FEMA, which administers the National Flood Insurance Program, announced that policyholders will soon have the option to pay their premiums in monthly installments rather than a lump ...

FEMA’s National Advisory Council, a group established after Hurricane Katrina to make broad recommendations on the agency’s work, disbanded its 40 members, according to a Friday letter from Ro ...

Since Hurricane Katrina, when the federal response was severely criticized, FEMA has been led by disaster management professionals who have run state or local emergency management agencies ...

Since Congress imposed the job requirements after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, presidents including Trump in his first term had appointed veteran emergency managers to run FEMA. “He’s completely ...

Its reputation was battered by its poor handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the agency has struggled to recover. FEMA has a workforce of 20,000 people that can swell to more than 50,000 ...

“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster ... to be justified following the agency’s response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina flood, which killed more than 1,800 people. Congress’s 2006 ...