On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

The biennial exercise conducted by FEMA aims to test the state and local response to an emergency at the nuclear facility.

Ms. Tierney has worked in emergency management for over 25 years, and was acting deputy secretary of the Department of ...

John Cohen, an ABC News contributor and a former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, talks about ...

FEMA was activated after Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, where 59 people were killed by flash ...

Questions are mounting over local authorities’ failure to prepare and warn residents ahead of the disaster. Texas officials ...

Regional teams across the country have been instructed, at times, to limit sharing information with their state and local ...

But many of the camps’ idyllic locales also face the danger of severe flooding, since much of the land near the river is ...

As a devastating flash flood in Texas over the weekend has left at least 82 people dead, including 28 children, it's raising ...

County emergency planners have taken notice. Contra Costa, for one, lacks the capacity to fill the federal funding gaps if FEMA follows through on proposed rollbacks, Kovar said.

The sweeping budget bill is facing backlash over deep cuts to programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and now FEMA, which ...