By Laura McMullen, NerdWallet Natural disasters, whether massive wildfires, hurricanes or floods, can upend lives in an instant, but unwinding the financial damage can take many months. Still, those ...

While disasters can lead scammers to take advantage of vulnerable groups by impersonating representatives from relief and ...

ABC7 took some of the questions you submitted about FEMA assistance to a FEMA spokesperson and here are the answers.

A fire at the Imperial Swan Hotel & Suites in Lakeland early Friday morning left some displaced disaster victims without a place to stay again.

Whether it is a hurricane, major tornado, or wildfire, disasters "don't discriminate" in where they will be and whom they ...

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is expected to cruise through the process to confirmation after surviving a fairly quiet hearing that lasted less than three hours.

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Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with this week's roll call votes, the House ...

Tenant advocacy groups, landlord associations and elected officials are condemning rent gouging after tens of thousands of people were displaced in deadly fires this month ...

“If you have insurance and are applying for FEMA disaster assistance, you must file a claim with your insurance company first," according to the agency. “By law, FEMA cannot duplicate benefits for ...

President-elect Trump’s Homeland Security pick, Gov. Kristi Noem, faced questions about the border, immigration, managing FEMA disaster funds and the Secret Service at her Senate confirmation hearing ...

Tubs conquered the trifecta on Monday when he said the crestfallen victims of California’s devastating wildfires — those who ...