Families across America are thinking increasingly about the importance of emergency preparedness. Keeping an eye on the news ...

Local impacts include $1.1M to elevate buildings in Pollocksville; $3M for a flood-prevention ditch in Maysville; $9M for ...

The United Way of Southwest Virginia received a $150,397 disaster recovery grant from the Appalachian Helene Fund, the organization announced Monday.  “We are deeply ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia, won a lawsuit ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully attempted to terminate FEMA's disaster preparedness program, ...

Georgia receives $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for storm recoveries and pandemic response efforts ...

Volunteer emergency responders give their time to train just in case they may be needed in a disaster. Meet some of those volunteer responders in our series Here to Help.

Read more from The Alligator's "Ripple Effects" special section here. A year after being hit with two hurricanes back-to-back, Gainesville and Alachua County have not received reimbursements from the ...

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island's president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 ...

For research in Cuba, Gustav Cederlöf has previously received funding from the ESRC, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), King's College London Graduate School, and ...

An image of the NOAA October hurricane activity chart, showing that activity can still occur in the second half of the Atlantic hurricane season. (Courtesy of NOAA) Driving through Orlando in the ...

Communities across the Caribbean are reeling in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, which ripped through Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this week.