The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is changing the way it responds to natural disasters, it announced Friday, as the climate crisis fuels more extreme weather events and causes more ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture begins accepting applications on July 10 for the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program, which will provide $16 billion to help producers recover from weather-related ...

The Agriculture Department will issue a second round of disaster payments to producers who suffered losses in 2023 and 2024, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Friday.

To qualify for drought related losses, the loss must have occurred in a county rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D2 (severe drought) for eight consecutive weeks, D3 (extreme drought), or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene left swaths of Florida's gulf coast and regions of other southeastern states underwater ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis City has asked FEMA to extend the disaster assistance application deadline from Aug. 11 to Oct. 10. “We submitted that application for the extension last week. We believe we made ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced technical and financial assistance for Illinois farmers and livestock ...