Maine will be eligible for federal help to cover the costs of a blizzard that hit in early February. President Barack Obama on Monday approved Gov. Paul LePage’s request for a disaster declaration. The declaration means Androscoggin, Cumberland, Knox, and …
As New Hampshire gets hit by the last snowstorm of the winter, it’s getting some federal help for the season’s worst. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed disaster declaration ordering federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in …
President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration for the Navajo Nation Tuesday, making it the second American Indian tribe to receive such a declaration after a law change in January. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina was …
President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for Louisiana to authorize federal aid for areas affected by severe storms and flooding in January. A White House statement Friday said the declaration of a major disaster makes federal funding available …
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has declared two more Mississippi counties as disaster areas due to storms and tornadoes that pounded the state last Sunday. Marion and Wayne counties were named disaster areas on Friday. …
President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency for Connecticut after the massive storm that blanketed the state with several feet of snow. The order means federal money will be used to help state and local response efforts. The …
Dry weather should continue through at least the end of January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and possibly some wheat, an …
The government declared much of the central and southern U.S. Wheat Belt a natural disaster area on Wednesday due to persistent drought that imperils this year’s winter wheat harvest. In its first disaster declaration of the new year, the Agriculture …
A disaster declaration has been expanded to include three regions of Interior Alaska impacted by flooding in late September. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says Gov. Sean Parnell has expanded an earlier declaration for Southcentral Alaska to include the Denali Borough …
Residents in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., can now apply for federal and state disaster assistance, as the parish was added Tuesday to the major disaster declaration for Hurricane Isaac. Parish homeowners, renters and business owners may register with the …