As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why ...

The anticipated layoffs would affect FEMA's Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees (CORE) who support disaster recovery ...

Job cuts affect how quickly infrastructure is rebuilt, how soon businesses reopen and how efficiently insurance claims move ...

FEMA CORE employees make up approximately 40% of FEMA’s workforce and are deployed, as needed, to disaster areas to assist with response and recovery. In 2023, the Government Accountability Office ...

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week ...

Homeland Security plans could slash thousands of FEMA disaster response jobs in 2026, raising concerns about delays in ...

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

North Carolina’s emergency management chief says the state has “significant concerns” with planned changes to Public ...

Documents outline potential reductions to CORE and surge staffing, raising concerns about disaster response capacity ...

The dismissals are elevating fears among FEMA staff that more job cuts are on the way. A FEMA planning document detailed potential cuts of more than 11,500 people from a workforce of about 23,000.

Gov. Bob Ferguson has formally asked the federal government to declare a major disaster in Washington following historic ...

Ahead of a winter storm forecast to blanket Texas this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott has activated a state emergency response.