President Trump issued an executive order to shift more responsibility for disaster response and recovery to states rather ...

Plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended because of the Trump administration’s ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s elimination this month of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program revoked upward of $3.6 billion in funding earmarked for communities ...

Following natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency often leases apartment buildings to directly house survivors. Federal and state disaster officials have not implemented the pro ...

They are accused of falsely stating that their homes were damaged or destroyed. One allegedly listed a nonexistent address.

In the aftermath of recent severe weather and flash flooding on Thursday, April 24, the Lafayette Parish Office of Homeland ...

Former Louisiana state official Mark Cooper has been appointed to President Trump's FEMA review task force. Cooper has served under both Republican and Democratic governors and has experience in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...