Thousands gathered for a celebration, but a pilot's error and poor event planning turned the show into carnage. The aftermath ...

Thousands watched in awe as a fighter jet performed a low barrel roll—then it clipped a tree, spiraled, and crashed into the crowd. The Sknyliv disaster became the deadliest airshow tragedy in history ...

The Trump administration has denied the state of Illinois’ appeal for a disaster declaration that would have unlocked federal assistance to thousands of residents affected by heavy rains and flooding ...

A key official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) indicated Wednesday that he believes the nation’s threshold for the declaration of major disasters is too low as various changes loom ...

With extreme weather events, fires and floods growing increasingly common, general warnings are no longer adequate. Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the World Meteorological ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday. By Scott Dance Maxine Joselow and Eric Niiler ...

Iain White leads the Better Resilience Decisions programme for the New Zealand Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform and receives funding from the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake and the ...

President Donald Trump on Monday accused Maryland officials of presiding over a “massive Ecological Disaster” after a sewer line breach last month sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the ...

After months of back and forth between Illinois officials and the federal government, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has officially rejected the state's request for disaster relief funding ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — How do you fix what is being called the largest sewage spill in the region’s history? That was the multi-million-dollar question facing Maryland lawmakers on Friday as they convened a ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to former FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about how the Department of Homeland Security shutdown will affect operations at the disaster relief agency. OK. Let's look at one ...

The Trump administration is undertaking the biggest overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in a generation. President Trump has been a vocal critic of the disaster response agency ...