said it would be a “huge mistake” to terminate the Federal Emergency Response Agency ... like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said ...

The text messages show how officials first started to realize how bad things were getting and that the windswept blazes had ...

FEMA is doubling down on its decision to not test soil after cleanup of toxic wildfire ash and debris in Los Angeles County, despite public outrage.

Although FEMA has funded and conducted soil sampling at some of California’s biggest wildfires over the past two decades, the federal agency changed its approach in 2020, Brandi Richard Thompson ...

The governor suspended the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act as the state prepares for the ...