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The windfall is expected to set off a massive construction effort that could last at least a decade

Rita came ashore very near the Louisiana Texas line 10 years ago but her effects reached far beyond the point of landfall. What is your memory of Rita?

I think most middle income families would agree $10,000 per year is out of reach.

The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security did not address whether FEMA was correct in determining $63 million worth of work in Livingston Parish was ineligible for reimbursement.

We need a fix for Obamacare but for all of America not just Washington.

43-year-old Jacqueline Marie Benjamin has pleaded guilty to illegally taking thousands of dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The new facility will now have three buildings to replace the six destroyed by the storm.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending $7.4 million to Louisiana in Hurricane Isaac recovery funds to help impacted families with additional household and education needs and more.

More than 1.3 billion dollars has been spent on the recovery efforts from Hurricane Rita.

FEMA will waive debts for many hurricane victims who were mistakenly overpaid. Senator Mary Landrieu says FEMA will send letters to some 90,000 households telling them they MAY get the waiver.

Many Gulf coast residents who received FEMA money after hurricane Katrina have been getting debt collection notices because the government says they shouldn't have gotten the money. But a new law could provide financial relief to thousands who received such notices.

Emergency personnel in Vermillion Parish will soon have new communications equipment thanks to a federal grant. The 73-point-5 thousand dollar grant from FEMA was approved by the Vermillion Parish Police Jury.

More money is coming to help Louisiana communities still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Iberia Parish Council has unanimously tabled final acceptance of the updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps at the request of a Tete Bayou resident.

Plans to storm-proof 16 government buildings in Iberia Parish are in the works.

There are many changes expected in the new flood map.

Nearly six years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is reminding storm victims why they cursed the agency for its sluggish response.

Federal Aid has been made available to the state of Louisiana to supplement state and local response efforts in the areas struck by flooding that began April 25, 2011, and continues  through today.

A date is set for a former FEMA employee and a government contractor to be arraigned on charges they conspired to fraudulently obtain a $100 million contract for maintaining government-issued shelters in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today urged U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to fully replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund (DRF).