Recovery

Formerly, there were only centers in Chico, Oroville and in mobile trucks spread throughout the region.

The county estimates that its debris removal work will reach $400 million in cost. So far, the county has borrowed money to pay for cleanup work while waiting for federal reimbursement. Costs for protective measures are ongoing.

'We developed a list of activities related to floodplain management and established a credit-based point system. Communities receive a 5% discount for each class they advance from a Class 10 (no discount) to Class 1 (45% discount).'

Some homeowners may be looking at a lower home value because of damage caused by the earthquake and its aftershocks, city assessors say.

Up to $10 million in hazard-mitigation grants has been made available statewide, despite FEMA denying Western Pennsylvania’s request to declare a disaster because of a spate landslides and related challenges last year.

Colorado's U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner in a Friday letter asked leaders of federal agencies helping fund rebuilds of infrastructure damaged in the 2013 flooding to consider the impact of the shutdown when deciding whether to approve deadline extensions for projects.

Sebring Police Chief Karl Hoglund said the victims were “senselessly murdered” by Zephen Xaver, 21, who surrendered after a Highlands County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team entered the bank.

'The idea was to make sure people could live as close as possible to where they normally live.'

While county residents hunkered down at home or in shelters as Irma thrashed the region on its trek up the Florida peninsula on Sept. 10 and 11 in 2017, about 400 county employees enjoyed Mattison's Catering, county records show.

The cloud technology is giving the Arizona fire department the ability to easily document the efforts at limiting firefighters’ exposure to cancer-causing agents via mobile access to members.

FEMA Administrator Brock Long said large-scale disaster recovery takes "many years" and the agency faced an 'unprecedented' amount of disasters in recent years, which required rebuilding communities across half the globe.

Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate says it’s time look at what the future holds instead of developing mitigation plans from yesterday’s outdated data.

Tens of thousands of homes across Eastern North Carolina were damaged by floodwaters from the storm, and five months later, many still have not been stripped to the studs so they can dry out and be rebuilt.

DeSantis’ comments Friday struck a different tone than when he was asked about the shutdown on Thursday — before news broke that Florida’s hurricane funding could be in sacrificed for the border wall. DeSantis said then that he has his “hands full down here,' indicating he didn’t want to get involved in all the “political posturing' in Washington.

The Army Corps’ $13.9 billion budget has been divvied up to subsidize various projects around the country, but the President has been briefed on a proposal that could see him dip into those funds, three officials told NBC News.