The water-main break was a result of an indifferent public that fails to push for necessary and costly upgrades, Chris Powell writes.

Colorado lawmakers are calling out the Trump administration for denying disaster requests for aid in recent wildfires and flooding incidents, saying the president is playing “political ...

Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are calling on President Donald Trump to ...

When the Big One or another major disaster hits California, the emergency response will need to be massive. Fixing roads and other infrastructure; restoring power and cellphone service; providing food ...

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Colorado politicians on both sides of the aisle are pushing back after President Donald Trump’s administration denied two ...

In fact, they found the opposite: that politics rarely came up in disaster zones. “Tens of thousands of records were screened and reviewed. We found there was no reasonable evidence to authenticate a ...

At the time, many dismissed it as hyperbole. Less than a year into Trump’s second term, elements of that warning are already playing out in real policy, from aggressive political prosecutions to ...

Californians have long relied on federal support to respond and recover from major disasters, but experts are sounding the alarm, saying the Trump Administration could delay assistance when it’s most ...