Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm's way before a flash ...

After months of promises to overhaul or eliminate the FEMA, President Donald Trump is touting a fast and robust federal response to the devastating Texas floods.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t a field trip — it’s oversight,” state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, said in a statement Wednesday.

The governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been exerting more direct control over the agency, which President Trump has ...

Noem said the rapid delivery of funds to Texas resembled the “state block grants” model Trump has promoted. It’s an idea that ...

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Just two days before devastating floods claimed at least 27 lives at Camp Mystic, the Texas Department of State Health ...

In a time of terrible natural disasters like the one Texas has just experienced, we rely on the Federal Emergency Management ...

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Workers install a permanent Alligator Alcatraz sign. The facility is within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the ...

KERRVILLE, Texas >> Officials in flood-stricken central Texas today again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that ...