Recovery

Governors announce new action to improve cybersecurity and risk management plans.

Ector County, Texas, commissioners said during the meeting that eliminating the department would save the county about $100,000.

The early response to Katrina in Georgia was plagued by communication missteps and turf battles.

Representative prefiles a bill for the 2016 legislative session that would require law enforcement to get a search warrant before using a drone with cameras to collect evidence.

Sixteen schools in Franklin County will participate in the program, which is expected to improve security by including a panic button, that once pressed, alerts emergency responders of a potentially life-threatening situation.

While Wilmington, N.C., was no stranger to hurricanes before the storm, local emergency management officials learned a few lessons from how Louisiana and the nation responded to the emergency.

The city of Hays has nearly completed a levee flood control project and now has set its sight on a new project.

Katrina’s hurricane-force winds extended 115 miles from the center when it made landfall Aug. 29, 2005, on the Mississippi-Louisiana line.

Downloadable apps have become helpful tools in disaster preparation. Here are a few to consider.

While a weakening of the storm would direct it toward Florida, forecasters predict it will no longer be a hurricane by day four or five.

Firefighters are using sensors and cameras in hopes of learning how effective prescribed burns and brush clearing are in slowing the path of a large wildfire.

The three-tiered system begins with local drainage off yards and streets, moves into municipal and county storm drains, and is then deposited into the water management district structures.

Today along the shoreline the calm and placid waters of the Gulf Coast belie the destructive force that was Katrina.

This year, the tribes were expecting to sell credits on about 480,000 acres of timber, allowing their forest to act as a remote carbon storage bank for California.

The meaning has evolved, but the actions need to evolve as well.