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

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28 ... and director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness. Since then, government officials and ...

The move was criticized by then-FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, who warned in 2003 that the reorganization would be "an ineffective and uncoordinated response" to a terrorist attack or a natural ...

FEMA brings in emergency personnel, supplies and equipment to stricken areas. Its reputation was battered by its poor handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the agency has struggled to recover.

Under a new agreement between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United Methodist Committee on Relief, at least 300,000 of those survivors will come closer to receiving the financial and ...

President Donald Trump’s call to possibly eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has Nebraska officials waiting and worrying, with two former disaster response officials saying that doing ...

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 ...

A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has linked the devastating California wildfires to Hurricane Katrina that destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005. Craig ...

"This is your Hurricane Katrina," former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate told the LA Times this week. "It will forever change the community. It will be a touch point ...

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 ...

But that’s already largely how the system works, with FEMA repaying states ... We found that one Katrina bill authorized $12 million for a Louisiana hurricane protection study but stipulated ...