A deadline is fast approaching for Mercer County residents impacted by the high winds and flooding of Tropical Storm Helene to apply with FEMA for disaster relief assistance and low-interest U.S.

Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  “We need a FEMA that looks like ...

Area leaders continue to find challenges looking for affordable ways to provide residents with ambulance service in rural areas of the county.

On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. declaring a public health emergency over COVID-19, people continue to lose their lives.

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts ...

We’re just praying we don’t get so much as a bad rain in the next four years.’ In an executive order Monday, President Donald Trump demanded a “full-scale review” of the Federal Emergency Management ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...

The United States' decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) can only be described as a reckless act that ...

It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up ...

The study found that the rates of patients leaving before medically advised increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were 721 million emergency department visits from 2016 to 2021, of which 194 ...

OTTAWA: The Canadian government has pledged to offer financial aid on the scale seen during the COVID-19 pandemic to support ...