Vermont Already Preparing for the Next Big Storm December 18, 2013 By Wilson Ring Vermont and federal officials Monday highlighted the state’s ongoing efforts to prepare for what is expected to be increasingly severe...
New Jersey Criticized for Holding Onto Storm Housing Aid November 14, 2013 By Geoff Mulvihill New Jersey officials said Tuesday that they have distributed just over one-third of the federal aid allocated for housing for...
Maine, Rhode Island Granted Disaster Aid for February Storm March 27, 2013 Maine will be eligible for federal help to cover the costs of a blizzard that hit in early February. President...
Feds Seek Insurance Funds from Former Louisiana Mayor June 8, 2012 A federal magistrate has ordered the garnishment of money from a life insurance policy owned by former Ball, La., Mayor...
More Families Building Their Own Tornado Shelters May 2, 2012 By Holbrook Mohr, Jim Salter and Phillip Rawls When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers’ paths had nowhere...
Kansas Tornado Relief Efforts Turn Toward Housing April 26, 2012 With debris cleanup now in its second week, immediate relief efforts for Kansas tornado victims have been scaled back as...
Bill Would Funnel Fines Paid by BP to Gulf States September 21, 2011 U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss) say they are hopeful that a key Senate committee will this...
Former Florida Governor Bush Goes into Disaster Response Business September 19, 2011 Jeb Bush, former Florida Governor, has entered into one of the state’s for-profit disaster response businesses. Bush has joined O’Brien’s...
Japan Marks 6 Months Since Earthquake, Tsunami September 13, 2011 By Tomoka A. Hosaka Up and down Japan’s devastated northeast coast, survivors prayed and communities came together Sunday to mark six months since the...
North Carolina County Recovers From Trio of Disasters September 7, 2011 By Tom Breen Driving along the back roads of Bertie County, it’s hard sometimes to tell one disaster’s damage from another. That huge...