President Trump suggested getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and letting individual states coordinate ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management ...

The Federal Emergency Management ... agency that coordinates the response to disasters nationwide. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., FEMA employs over 20,000 people in the U.S. with 10 regional ...

Mr. Hamilton is an unusual choice to lead the agency, even in a temporary capacity. Since Hurricane Katrina, when the federal ... or local emergency management agencies, or were regional ...

Instead of having federal financial assistance flow through FEMA (Federal Emergency Management ... Helene at Asheville Regional Airport (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) The agency helps respond to disasters ...

Democrat leaders in the territory were far less optimistic.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s swift action after his Monday inauguration to return Cuba to the list of countries that ...

Another report, following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confidential overview that said that over 40 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands public lives below ...