The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to ...

Hurricane season is officially here. Prepare now with a disaster-ready bag full of essential items before it's too late.

Communities in areas along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful earthquake Wednesday, but officials ...

U.S. land managers have long known that they have a problem on their hands with overgrown forests and persistent drought.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the ...

A fault line that could unleash a major earthquake is not where scientists thought it was. New research found the Concord Fault is about a quarter mile west of where it was originally mapped.