Recovery from Florida’s other big hurricane this season – Helene – has had to take a backseat to Milton. Arriving just 13 days before Milton, the Category 4 hurricane is now …
Florida’s Big Bend region can’t catch a break when it comes to major hurricanes lately. At 11:10 pm Thursday night, Hurricane Helene made landfall at Dekle Beach right outside Perry as …
There was just a passing reference to Hurricane Ian during a congressional hearing last week in which FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was called to testify about FEMA’s disaster fund running out of money …
Wildfire…tornadoes…hurricanes….earthquake…flash floods…and more. All of these catastrophes were the hots topics of conversation and especially instructive for a group of 8th– through 11th-graders from across the country who may one day become our next generation of …
Florida lawmakers in Washington are working to prevent FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund from running out of money as soon as next month, the National Hurricane Center unveils a new model that it says provides better …
Local officials decide against direct payments to households impacted by the historic April Broward County flooding, the National Flood Insurance Program is again pitching a plan for multi-year reauthorization, and while Congress wants …
There’s some startling statistics out of the recent National Hurricane Conference in Orlando; tens of thousands of homeowners required to have flood insurance don’t; and new enhanced pre-disaster mitigation funding is moving through Congress. Plus, FEMA’s …
