Over 30,000 have been let go or put on leave but information on which departments have been impacted is only trickling out.

State emergency management officials, and Arizona State University, are investing in the future of disaster response.

Speaking before the House Appropriations Committee, Director Randy Padfield acknowledged that this could be a problem in the ...

Researchers at the University of Florida may have developed a groundbreaking solution that may soon be the future of ...

Next City examines how spending on affordable housing development and infrastructure improvements can help prevent renters from being priced out following a disaster.

If you tune your radio to AM 530 in central and northern portions of Santa Barbara County, you will be able to listen to ...

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This ends McConnell’s decades-long reign of conservative terror that upended years of liberal and progressive policy, ...

Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be ...

It’s in a firefighter’s blood to race to the scene of a fire and help those in need. Sometimes that takes them across the ...

West Virginia is still waiting on approval from the federal government for an emergency disaster declaration filed by Gov.