All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2007 // Parts of the Beachwood-Franklin neighborhood in Merced, Calif., are seen after being flooded from a levee break that occurred on April 4, 2006 . (AP Photo/The Merced Sun-Star, Jack Bland, file photo.)The Federal Emergency...
Feb 20 2007 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing a new map of El Paso designating much of the city as a flood plain, a spokeswoman said, which would push thousands of homeowners with mortgages into buying flood...
Feb 12 2007 // The Army Corps of Engineers reported recently that 122 levees from Rhode Island to California are at risk of failing, potentially affecting thousands of people and requiring millions of dollars in repairs. Six states in...
Feb 12 2007 // As we are well aware, flooding caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast from June through November. What many fail to realize, however, is that flood risk is not...
Feb 7 2007 // In the New Orleans neighborhood President George W. Bush visited after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But official figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed...
Feb 7 2007 // The federal government will triple the size of California’s San Joaquin River flood plain on maps, which could limit development and force more homeowners to buy flood insurance.The Federal Emergency Management...
Feb 6 2007 // Jeffrey Alan Rothschild, 59, also known as Jeffrey Zahler, has been sentenced to 102 months in prison in connection with a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of more than $100,000 in relief...
Feb 5 2007 // A Dallas man who claimed to be a Hurricane Katrina victim was arrested on charges outlined in a three-count indictment returned in October 2006 by a federal grand jury in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of...
Feb 5 2007 // The federal government approved public disaster assistance for 18 more Oklahoma counties on Feb. 2, a day after Gov. Brad Henry expressed frustration over its refusal to qualify all 23 counties he sought disaster...
Jan 29 2007 // Homeowners who witnessed the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina seem to have boosted flood insurance sales dramatically in 2006, and federal government actions also might force others to purchase flood coverage, as...
Jan 23 2007 // Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said party politics played a role in decisions on...
Jan 12 2007 // Colorado lawmakers are trying to put pressure on the federal government to speed up aid to ranchers and county governments digging out from back-to-back blizzards on the southeastern plains.Sens. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and...
Jan 11 2007 // The popularity of federal flood insurance policies in Texas is on the rise, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. ICT reported that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) records show that the number of flood...
Jan 10 2007 // The government should make FEMA turn over records of residents of its trailers and trailer parks to New Orleans police and other agencies investigating crime in the area, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said.The proposal is part...
Jan 10 2007 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal aid has been made available to supplement state and local response efforts in Colorado for...
Jan 8 2007 // Sales of federal flood insurance rose sharply across the country last year after homeowners witnessed the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and realized that typical insurance policies didn’t cover many...
Jan 2 2007 // Louisiana residents whose homes or businesses sustained damage in the Oct. 16, 2006, storm have until Jan. 2, 2006, to apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance.Two major storms dumped more than 20 inches of...
Dec 28 2006 // Louisiana residents who suffered damages from the severe storms and flooding that occurred between Oct. 16 and Nov. 8, 2006, may be eligible for disaster tax relief from the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Emergency...
Dec 25 2006 // Leaders who run Biloxi’s Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art are reluctantly considering abandoning its incomplete and storm-damaged beachfront site designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. They could end up moving...
Dec 13 2006 // The possibility of locating the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art back in downtown Biloxi and abandoning its storm-damaged and incomplete beachfront site designed by Frank Gehry is one of the options museum leaders are...