It felt like the longest two hours of Karen Stirewalt’s life, from the harrowing realization that Big Sandy Creek was going to sweep away her house, to the agonizing wait for emergency responders who ...

As the federal government continues making changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, News 13 is examining how those ...

Many public works departments and the design and construction firms that work for them already see fallout from the April suspension of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) ...

END QUOTE. RIGHT NOW, GOVERNOR EVERS HAS A REQUEST INTO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR FEDERAL AID. IT’S TO HELP CLEAN UP AFTER HISTORIC FLOODING. IF IT’S APPROVED, THAT AID WOULD ONLY GO TO HOMEOWNERS IN THREE ...

CFA volunteers have branded the Labor government’s emergency services levy an “outright lie” as they continue to push for the ...

Marcus Bruning manages Minnesota's public safety radio systems, focusing on interagency communication and preparedness.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, killing 1,392 people and raising serious questions about the nation’s ability to handle natural disasters, current and former employees at the ...

Cellphone alerts are far from foolproof, though, as we experienced during January’s devastating fires. In west Altadena, warnings came too late or not at all. Cell service went out in many cases. Not ...

Trees serve as important buffers against storm surges. But when they fall, they threaten life, power and infrastructure, and ...

Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, and Ren Larson, The Assembly ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Both houses of the CA State Assembly have passed AB 602, a bill that protects college students from suspension or ...

On the night TJ McGee overdosed from a mixture of drugs and alcohol in his freshman year at UC Berkeley, his friends found him passed out in the hallway by their shared dorm room. The roommates tried ...