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Yakima County officials are working on a plan to put a permanent Emergency Operations Center, crime lab, consolidated dispatch services and a real-time information center under the same roof.

But survivors do not experience disasters in frameworks. They experience them in soaked drywall, in missed paychecks, in ...

Current events lead us to believe the world is in a free-fall. As uncertain as it may seem, the field of disaster psychology gives us a roadmap on how to emerge from the abyss.

Days after a severe winter storm left tens of thousands of people in Nashville without power in freezing temperatures, a rumor began to spread: If power had been out for more than 24 hours, people ...

Tennessee senators approved a bill enabling the governor’s disaster fund to aid local entities when federal assistance falls short.

The Trump administration is proposing massive changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We asked disaster experts to weigh in.

A key statute was designed to rein in the Homeland Security secretary and prevent deadly mistakes. Lawyers say its provisions are difficult to enforce.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced aggressive lines of questioning from members of both sides of the aisle in a long-awaited hearing that fell amid growing scrutiny of the secretary’s ...

Each April in Japan, people participate in a tradition called "hanami," or cherry-blossom viewing, where they picnic under the blooming trees. The ...

Legislation introduced in both houses of Congress on Wednesday would require the government to create a new front door for loans at Lending.gov.

Synthetic full backups became the newest way to backup without actually moving all of your data. Backup software or API-based ...