Two pillars of our civil society threaten to collapse just when we need them most: cohesive public health services and ...

The fires burning in Los Angeles County have already destroyed at least 12,000 structures, including thousands of homes, and ...

Better understanding of what occurred at the water plant will be a focus of the thorough, transparent independent ...

Whether it is a hurricane, major tornado, or wildfire, disasters "don't discriminate" in where they will be and whom they ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency opened a disaster recovery center in Lauren County on Oct. 29, 2024 and they closed nearly three months later on Jan. 18 ...

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is expected to cruise through the process to confirmation after surviving a fairly quiet hearing that lasted less than three hours.

Millions of Southern Californians were on edge as winds began picking up during a final round of dangerous fire weather ...

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House also passed, by voice vote, a bill ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem answered questions Friday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 9, nearly 10 million people across Los Angeles County received a warning that they were in danger. “NEW: This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire ...

Natural disasters, whether massive wildfires, hurricanes or floods, can upend lives in an instant, but unwinding the financial damage can take many months. Still, those affected have many sources of ...

As the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires began last week, Jo-Marie Lawrence was watching a movie in Burbank with her friend when the mall lost power. That meant Lawrence, 32, a quadriplegic actor and ...