A town near Birmingham, Ala., is getting federal money to help rebuild its fire department after a tornado. Congressman Spencer Bachus says the Kimberly Fire Department has been awarded a federal grant totaling $50,825. The money will go to purchase …
South Dakota’s three members of Congress have asked President Barack Obama to declare a major disaster for three counties hit last month by a tornado and flooding. In a letter to the president, Rep. Kristi Noem and Sens. Tim Johnson …
Connecticut’s largest city is getting $10 million from the federal government to help protect it against another superstorm like Sandy in 2012. Bridgeport officials told the Connecticut Post that the money will be used to engineer strategies to protect the …
The New Jersey program to help build affordable housing to replace homes lost to Superstorm Sandy is proposing new rules that would keep more of the money in towns hit hard by the storm. The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage …
New Jersey officials say they dispersed just 25 percent of the state’s first large allocation of federal Superstorm Sandy aid in the first 11 months. That is a finding of a quarterly state report released last week on the dozens …
Records show more than 60 percent of Superstorm Sandy state housing assistance is going to homeowners in Ocean County, N.J. Nearly $14 million of the $23 million spent on the Sandy Housing Rental Assistance Program has helped 5,137 Ocean County …
Draft legislation would require the state to step in with disaster aid if the federal government denies requests for help. The bill is in response to the refusal of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to grant assistance to local governments …
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma stemming from a severe winter storm in early December. Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts for the Dec. 5-6 storm. Federal funding will be available …
As a second New Year since Superstorm Sandy approaches, many coastal residents are still waiting for New York, New Jersey and New York City to distribute billions of federal dollars that were intended to go directly to people struggling to …
State officials say it’s unlikely that the Lafayette, Ind., area will receive any federal assistance in recovering from damage caused by last month’s severe storms. Authorities have compiled nearly 300 reports of damage around Tippecanoe County from the Nov. 17 …