The National Fire Academy, the country's preeminent federal fire training academy, has canceled classes effective immediately amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A local woman's house was severely damaged after multiple storms. Then, she turned to the ABC7 I-Team for ...

A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump ...

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Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the holiday weekend and Tuesday, according to agency officials.

Jennifer Nou, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, said the legality of FEMA’s decision depends the length of the pause in enforcement. If FEMA stops enforcing the flood rule for ...

FEMA officials say that in the future, they won’t order soil testing after wildfires in the Southwest and Pacific Islands. In the face of mounting backlash from wildfire survivors and California ...

Four FEMA officials were fired Tuesday. Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, declined to name the four officials. When asked why they were let go ...