The Regions Foundation announced grants to support disaster recovery in Middle Tennessee and North Mississippi.

Emergency Programs Manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy shares lessons learned from the major storm events in December and January and how the department operates.

Sri Lanka is planning to seek money from the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage linked to the United Nations, officials ...

The FEMA Review Council recommends replacing the decades-old system for distributing money to states with a plan triggered by weather conditions, not ...

Investing in pre-disaster mitigation can save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing the cost of recovery from natural disasters, while also providing strong protections to vulnerable local ...

Insurance industry profit motives conflict with our need for protection. Public insurance, coupled with proactive risk reduction, can help.

After two widespread flooding events hit communities in both southern and northern West Virginia last year, taking lives and wrecking numerous structures, the Legislature is eyeing changes to how ...

Instead of focusing primarily on riding the wave of economic uncertainty to a more stable time, a solution lies in accepting uncertainty and building the best possible business continuity plan to help ...

According to FEMA, 40% of small and mid-sized businesses never reopen after a disaster. For those that do, the road back is steep—another 25% close their doors within a year. The longer recovery takes ...

Stronger mitigation and smarter planning won’t eliminate disasters but will make them far less costly for communities and taxpayers alike. When federal policy prioritizes resilience, states and cities ...

The trading outage at CME Group on Thanksgiving evening at its Aurora data center exposed a vulnerability in the exchange operator’s backup plan that led to an hours-long wait for traders looking to ...