County leaders from 15 states are pushing for legislation that would establish a universal disaster application and create a new website to allow the public to track…

Ratna Dougherty, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, discussed the impact of the federal government shutdown on FEMA and disaster relief. The shutdown also…

What happens to disaster relief during a federal shutdown? It's complicated.

One academic said that $40 million, spread across thousands of local governments, likely falls short of what's needed to prepare for the next Camp Mystic.

Under FEMA's new conception of emergencies, states are to be increasingly left to their own devices for emergency planning and response.

Cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration could hinder state and local government coordination.

Staff at the Hawaii State Energy Office said that a critical decision-making tool that helps the state respond to and plan for emergencies may not have happened…

The mapping technology company Esri is encouraging agencies at all levels of government to share data related to pandemic response efforts on the new platform.

The group says slowly making progress on the multi-year effort to simplify the rules state IT offices must comply with.

A new requirement calls for state chief information officers and chief information security officers to be included in the governance process for two influential federal grant programs.