Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

At the direction of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made sweeping cuts ...

President Donald Trump has said he wants state and local officials to shoulder more of the burden of disaster response, even ...

The start of hurricane season can send a shiver through eastern North Carolina, a region pounded in the last decade by two ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is calling for every Louisianan to have a plan for hurricane season -- but it's not at all clear that the ...

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We are heading into this hurricane season with more uncertainty than usual,” Stein said, because funding for FEMA and NOAA ...

The nation’s top agency for response and recovery work has endured significant upheaval since Trump’s return to the White ...

With hurricane season officially underway, worries are mounting around whether President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have endangered the nation’s disaster response. The concern is ...

As President Trump remakes the agency, former officials say the changes could leave states without key federal support after ...

The White House maintained that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has taken hurricane season planning “seriously,” ...

Acting FEMA Director David Richardson told staff in an all-hands meeting that he was unaware hurricane season had started, ...