Vermont Business Magazine U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) on Wednesday unveiled the Disaster Assistance Improvement and ...

The past two summers brought devastating flooding to Vermont communities, and after recovering, money owed from FEMA for ...

Welch on Tuesday introduced a sweeping legislative proposal designed to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...

The full plan is more than 300 pages long, so for a shorter read the council also made a list of its top ten highest-priority ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs reform, not abolishment, said U.S. Sen. Peter Welch on Wednesday as he spoke ...

Posted in Government & Politics FEMA has given out $6 million in household aid in Vermont for July flooding. Here’s how to apply before the Oct. 21 deadline.

FEMA crews have visited thousands of homes in an effort to let people know they could be eligible for financial assistance, and to help them apply before the Oct. 21 deadline.

Records obtained by Vermont Public earlier this summer show that FEMA had, as of March, incurred nearly $80 million in administrative costs on the recovery mission related to the floods from July ...

FEMA approved a major second disaster declaration just over a month later to address consequences of the January storms that wiped out power in five Vermont counties.

William Roy, FEMA’s Vermont coordinating officer, says Congress may have to replenish funds later this year but they can currently handle all current and near-term disasters. “Right now, FEMA ...

Vermont's two remaining disaster recovery centers left over from July severe weather events will close down this weekend.. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) erected several disaster ...

The FEMA bureaucracy is so fraught and labor intensive that the state of Vermont has paid $4 million to a private contractor, based in Illinois, to help it, and towns, navigate the public ...