Residents, businesses and community partners are being encouraged to review the plan and provide feedback before the end of the comment period, which will run from March 16 through March 30.

Hazard mitigation planning reduces the loss of life and property by minimizing the impact of disasters. Mitigation plans are key to breaking the cycle of disaster damage and reconstruction. The ...

Jacksonville/Morgan County Office of Emergency Management is inviting the public to comment on its plan to mitigate damage from severe weather and other natural hazards during a public forum.

Communities face several challenges and complex decisions related to natural hazards, which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Furthermore, the increased frequency of extreme weather ...

A Lawrence County planner said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is getting stricter about handing out disaster money if municipalities don’t approve the county’s hazard mitigation plan. The ...

Iberia Parish leaders met Thursday to begin updating their five-year hazard mitigation plan with community input and agency collaboration.

According to NOAA data, Lowndes County recorded 18 floods between 1950 and 2020 — roughly one every four years. Ten hurricanes or tropical systems were also reported during that same period.

Because coastal erosion is a high priority hazard that all of Cape Cod and the Islands faces, each town has official ...

After six years in administrative limbo, Alcoa officials are finally receiving a pair of backup power generators for the city’s water treatment facility through a federal- and state-backed Hazard Miti ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order Tuesday that looks to help Arkansans better prepare for disasters and hazards before they happen.According to a release from the governor's office ...

Lowndes County Emergency Management is asking residents to weigh in as the county updates its hazard mitigation plan.