The legislation was written after the state’s largest wildfire scorched more than 1 million acres in the Panhandle last year.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced the activation of additional state emergency response resources ahead of increased threats of severe weather and flash flooding in large portions of the state ...

Those evacuations have since been lifted. In a release sent out on Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had approved the state’s request ...

Greg Abbott activated comprehensive state emergency response resources in anticipation of severe weather and potential flash flooding threatening South and Southeast Texas through the weekend.

nearly $3 billion for FEMA’s Public Assistance and more than $5.7 billion for HUD’s allocations. Other costly incidents in Texas included Hurricane Ike in 2008, Hurricane Dolly in 2008 and ...

El Paso, McAllen, Brownsville, San Antonio, Laredo and El Paso County have also received these FEMA grants. The most important Texas news, sent weekday mornings. This site is protected by ...

Governor Abbott directs Texas emergency team to work with FEMA on damage assessments after South Texas floods.

Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to get state resources ready as strong storms moved ...

The new Comfort, Texas, location will allow the coffee shop to revive its bakery. Hamilton said that moving forward, FEMA will ask recipients of these grants to sign an affidavit stating that no ...

Officials with city and county of El Paso say that they were awarded FEMA grants but ultimately didn't accept the money in part because of the low number of migrants crossing the Texas-Mexico ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressed support for eliminating long-term disaster recovery efforts under the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...