Blue tarps cover the roof of Paula Bermudez's storm-damaged house in Galliano on Oct. 5, 2021 — six weeks after Hurricane Ida. Blue tarps cover the roof of Paula Bermudez's storm-damaged house in ...

Fire departments and emergency responders across Louisiana will receive about $4.9 million in federal funding through a FEMA ...

HOUMA, La. (Louisiana First) — As Louisiana braces for another hurricane season, concerns are rising over the future of federal emergency assistance that many residents rely on after natural disasters ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ended a program Louisiana depends on to fund natural disaster mitigation projects. The federal agency announced on ...

FEMA's leadership has changed again, less than a month before the start of Atlantic hurricane season. Why it matters: It raises questions for Louisiana and other coastal states that rely heavily on ...

NEW ORLEANS — FEMA has ended a program that Louisiana relies on to raise homes, build levees, and prevent flooding. The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program had over 140 ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s advisory council on FEMA’s future wants to hear from the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said GOHSEP Director Jacques ...

Many Louisiana residents are still hoping to receive FEMA assistance. When President Joe Biden visited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, he promised a key form of federal aid to those ...

Since President Donald Trump first suggested “maybe getting rid of FEMA” and letting states manage federal disaster funding, emergency preparedness experts have expressed mixed feelings about the idea ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The ...