State Rep. Ken King, whose proposal to create a system failed twice, heard testimony about firefighters being forced to carry ...

The FEMA for Safe Recovery Act, introduced on Capitol Hill earlier this month, would create a federal policy requiring gender-responsive and trauma-informed training for FEMA. This includes better ...

A White House task force called for speeding up aid and responding to fewer disasters. But some of its ideas would require action by Congress to become reality. By Scott Dance Reporting from ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center will hold an emergency preparedness exercise to test ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management ...

President Donald Trump’s task force for reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday recommended sweeping changes to how the federal government responds to natural disasters. The ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has faced longstanding workforce management challenges, including staff shortages, that make supporting disaster response and recovery difficult. The GAO found ...

For years, there’s been a debate over what role the Federal Emergency Management Agency should play when disaster strikes American communities. Trump argues that states should shoulder much more of ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency cuts its workforce without assessing how that would impact disaster response and recovery, the Government Accountability Office determined in a report published ...