The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency ...

FEMA employees were abruptly placed on administrative leave Tuesday—just 24 hours after they signed an explosive open letter warning Donald Trump that the agency is being dragged back to its ...

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in late August 2005, doing more than physically devastating New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast. Katrina also exposed layers of systemic failures − in infrastructure, ...

Sept. 5, 2005 -- -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had virtually no experience with emergency management when he was appointed to the position by President Bush two years ago.