Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

The floods and landslides that swept northern parts of Sumatra, Indonesia’s westernmost major island, at the end of November and persisted into December claimed more than 1,200 lives, and more than a ...

A housefly-sized pest threatens to pose a big problem in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration on Thursday, in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration on Thursday to prevent the potential spread of the New World screwworm fly into the Lone Star State, as he seeks to better protect ...

John Simeone was sure his vacation condo, nestled in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, would sell easily. Then the listing went live in August: “It was like a bolt of lightning hit me in the head.” The ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture Rick Pate announced Friday that 19 counties are being designated by the US Department of Agriculture as primary natural disaster areas due ...

I urge state legislators to take proactive measures to protect Oregon families from natural disasters before more communities suffer the way folks in Clackamas County are now, (“Oregon coast flooding ...

WAYLAND, Ky. — Mayor Jerry Fultz steps out of his car and stands at the foot of the last road before the creek, where the specter of flooding is reshaping his hometown. A dog trots through fresh ...

A family of Maine fishermen wants to change regulations that limit certain water bodies in the state to fly fishing only. To that end, plaintiffs Joe Legendre, Justin Legendre, and Samantha Legendre ...

Cyclone Senyar was an unusually rare event for Sumatra, but the scale of destruction cannot be explained by weather alone. Decades of deforestation, mining, plantations, and peat drainage left ...

T. Usha last heard from his cousin on Nov. 29, when his cousin left their home along with another relative to search for people stranded by flooding and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri ...