On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

FEMA officials are two months behind in posting grant application guidelines, which are expected to reflect President Trump’s ...

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to ...

The Emergency Committee on the Impacts of Federal Workforce and Funding Reductions, the special group organized by the ...

Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners “It’s important to make sure that everyone understands that these are scary times for us in emergency management.” ...

Some governors and mayors are concerned over how current or potential cuts to agencies will impact how the government can ...

Shortly after President Jimmy Carter created FEMA in 1979 to centralize federal disaster management, the agency began to dole out grants to help communities grappling with large-scale destruction.

Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners “It’s important to make sure that everyone understands that these are scary times for us in emergency management.” ...