President Donald Trump said he plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. In response, Fort Lauderdale is now looking at creating a special emergency management reserve to lean on ...

The federal government plays an essential role in immediate disaster relief and could do more to help residents recover and ...

Monroe County officials, first responders and partner agencies took the county’s Emergency Operations Center for a test drive ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida successfully chartered two flights and sailed one cruise ship mission to rescue Americans from ...

Sometimes the hardest thing is asking for help. However, for Lucy, a Palm Beach County woman battling metastatic melanoma, it ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was at Tampa International Airport on Friday morning to welcome a flight from Cyprus carrying ...

As ballistic missiles from Iran struck Israel, U.S. visitors used their own initiatives or turned to quickly assembled rescue ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced during an unusually early Friday morning news conference that a second flight carrying Floridians ...

Money universities make with dorms, dining plans, bookstores, and more will partially be redirected to Florida collegiate ...

Florida's public universities can free up $22.5 million a year to compensate student-athletes. That's under an emergency rule ...

Up until now, student athletes could be compensated through sponsorships and other deals, but never directly by their schools ...

Did you know there's a program available that will get you home, free of charge, if an emergency leaves you stranded? WPTV is ...