The parish annually also competes for funding that isn't tied to a major disaster, like Ida. Elevating homes has long been the go-to solution for communities to address flood risk. FEMA ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Two Lake Charles women said they are battling the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Tenants Terra Hillman and Diana Betters are both living in temporary housing ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she wants President Trump to “get rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as it exists today. Noem joined CNN’s “State of the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Sunday that she would recommend to President Donald Trump that he “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today” and allow local officials to have ...

FEMA is extending its Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) Program to Jan. 25 for residents of North Carolina, according to a Monday announcement. The program, which was set to expire on ...

Former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Michael Brown said that Congress should give the disaster relief agency back its “independent agency status,” allowing it ...

Those range from financial rental assistance to rent a temporary home or apartment, to temporary housing units such as mobile homes and travel trailers, or direct lease, where FEMA directly leases ...

“I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” Noem said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go ...

Disaster recovery centers will help people apply for federal assistance and allow them to speak to representatives of federal and state agencies. Several seeking help at the Pasadena location were ...

But the chief of the National Emergency Management Association, which oversees state emergency response across the entire country, told Forbes that factoring out FEMA is not the answer.