FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest ...
Residents of Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina are still recovering from catastrophic flooding in September.
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 ...
GONZALES, La. (BRPROUD) — The city of Gonzales hosted a historic inauguration, swearing in the first Black mayor to lead the city and the first Black woman to hold a seat in the city council.
Instead, he was betrayed by a two-toed sloth named Sid. The Saginaw Township store, which opened in 2022, has sold everything from armadillos to alligators, from hairless rats to bearded dragons ...
Why are permits taking so long? The city must follow FEMA rules and make sure homes are not substantially damaged before issuing permits to rebuild them. If a home’s monetary damage is ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A Jarreau woman was killed in a New Year’s Day morning crash on a highway in Pointe Coupee Parish. Hailey Saizan, 24, was driving northbound on Louisiana Highway ...
East Baton Rouge has a new mayor-president. The first Republican elected to the position in more than two decades, Mayor-President Sid Edwards was inaugurated Thursday in front of a crowd of ...
An additional $307 million in public assistance funding has been approved so far to support community recovery, FEMA said. The announcement comes after Congress approved a bipartisan spending bill ...