FEMA News

A 47-year-old New Orleans woman has admitted filing a fraudulent claim for disaster help after Hurricane Katrina.

Temp: 62.0 F Wind Chill: 62 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Font Size: The federal government is continuing its auctions of travel trailers left in the Pine Belt area following Hurricane Katrina.

Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid has sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking her to reconsider plans for an emergency exercise in Las Vegas.

The government is still waiting to hear from almost 20,000 flood victims in Georgia who picked up applications for Small Business Administration loans but have not returned them yet.

Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

A program intended to help disabled veterans win government business awarded at least $100 million in contracts to firms that were either ineligible or committed fraud to obtain the work, a federal review has found.

Officials in a coastal North Carolina county have declared a state of emergency after a nor'easter eroded oceanfront dunes and flooded several homes and cropland.

There is growing evidence in Atascadero - " the recollections of former elected officials, city employees, and previous reports - " that shows that some leading city officials purposely lied when they reported that the historic City Hall's foundation substantially sank during the 2003 San Simeon earthquake.

Georgetown, SC - Improvements to a drainage basin facility in Georgetown, S.C. will be funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner are pressing federal officials to release disaster aid in the wake of last week's powerful nor'easter that rocked Hampton Roads.

Fifteen months ago, Paul Ray and Donna Heinrich had a view of the water from the porch of their house in Gilchrist.

The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is asking federal inspectors to conduct a preliminary damage assessment for areas recently flooded in north Louisiana.

Three days of rain and intense winds along the Shore has resulted in Gov. Jon S. Corzine declaring a state of emergency in six counties, including Monmouth and Ocean.

Gov. Tim Kaine Monday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help determining the extent of damage from last week's Nor'easter. Crews from FEMA, the US Small Business Administration and state and local officials were expected to look at damage to public infrastructure, private homes, apartments and businesses.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

After expert analysis by a town consultant, it appears there may be grounds for an appeal against the newly proposed flood insurance maps soon to be implemented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Questions remain for Southern Indiana residents that are still seeking help following storms that belted the area in early August.

Amid the storm clean up, Governor Tim Kaine is taking some heat for not coming back Virginia soon enough after declaring a state of emergency.

The Idaho State Journal reports the city submitted a hydrology study to the agency, reporting that the levees need to hold just 3,850 cubic feet per second of water to handle a 100-year flood.

A multiple alarm fire is burning at a business complex at 170th and Aurora Ave N. in Shoreline.