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?
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.
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.
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.
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).