FSA to Offer Flood Damage Assistance
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By Scott Waltman, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Jun. 2--Floodwaters have led the Farm Service Agency to offer emergency assistance to farmers and ranchers.   Registration begins Tuesday for the Farm Service Agency's Emergency Conservation Program.
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By American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 10--The federal government has taken a first step toward providing relief for drought-stricken farmers and ranchers -- now it is the time to take its second.
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LONDON - People in England and Wales can now discover at the click of a mouse whether they are living in areas liable to flooding, the Environment Agency says.
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Worst flooding for a decade leaves up to 1.5 million in need of emergency help.
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A clear-up operation is due to begin after flash floods left people trapped in cars and their homes.
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President Bush on Wednesday assured the governors of states in the path of Hurricane Ivan of federal aid to deal with damage from the storm.
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The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana appealed to the  international community on Thursday to send food, boats, power  generators and water pumps to help thousands of its inhabitants  forced from their homes by the worst floods in more than a  century.
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FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 17 -- President Bush dispatched two Cabinet secretaries and more federal money to this hard-hit state on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people flooded disaster relief hotlines, seeking everything ...
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President Bush is expected to ask Congress as early as Monday for at least another &#36;3 billion to help cover the cost of Florida's pummeling by hurricanes, congressional aides said Friday.
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By AP Wire Service  Technicians want to assess hail storm damage and determine necessary repairs.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Victims of the spring&#39;s severe storms, which brought flooding to the state, have until Monday evening to apply for disaster assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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By Lewis Griswold, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--The U.S. Small Business Administration has opened three disaster assistance offices in Tulare County. Nonfarm businesses hurt by the freeze of 2007 can apply for low-interest loans.
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By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD  ST. LOUIS - A state agency has offered to let a utility resolve claims for damages and fines stemming from a reservoir breach for $125 million, according to a settlement offer obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
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BARTOW, Fla. -- Federal and state officials say Florida&#39;s agriculture industry, battered by an unprecedented rash of hurricanes, is eligible for $500 million in disaster relief funds.
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A far reaching consultation into plans to upgrade flood protection across the country is to be unveiled.
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The Election Assistance Commission plans to spend more than &#36;1 million by Election Day to recruit poll workers nationwide and help Florida precincts devastated by hurricanes, but the federal agency expects far more of its funding will go toward collecting data about voting.