JACKSON, Miss. -- President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months.

Almost three months after the Federal Emergency Management Agency abruptly canceled classes at the National Fire Academy, ...

But Americans haven’t had to wait till next month’s start of hurricane season to feel the impacts of the Trump administration’s lack of interest in disaster response. This year, we’ve seen officials ...

The academy in Emmitsburg, Md., is often described as the national war college for firefighting. It offers training that ranges from leadership to how to conduct fire, arson and blast investigations.

The National Fire Academy and National Disaster and Emergency Management University will resume in-person training in Emmitsburg. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the decision in a ...

President Donald Trump, looking to overhaul FEMA, has tasked the council with recommending ways to return power to state ...

A House bill that makes it a felony under state law to deny disaster relief to a person based on their political affiliation ...

Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another ...

The dismissal of acting Federal Emergency Management Agency head Cameron Hamilton plunges an already fraught agency into ...

The U.S. federal disaster agency FEMA has sharply reduced training for state and local emergency managers ahead of the start ...

(AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File) Cam Hamilton acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations dubcommittee on Homeland Security ...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been replaced after testifying that he didn’t want to see the agency eliminated – as proposed by President Donald Trump.