The Board also approved a $29,000,000 budget amendment establishing an anticipated FEMA award for Buncombe County. Once this budget is in place, expenses already incurred in the General Fund will be ...

A MoveOn petition started earlier this month calling for Congress to pass more funding has amassed more than 40,000 ...

GOP Rep. Randy Feenstra is the incumbent, seeking his third term representing Iowa's 4th Congressional seat."I want to deliver results for our families, for ou ...

The back-to-back hurricanes have left FEMA in financial difficulty, the agency says. So would that make Congress return early to appropriate disaster money?

During an Oct. 7 appearance on “Fox and Friends,” 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance claimed ...

According to studies, most cities that have between 100 and 450 traffic signals have 21 employees for those traffic signals, and then 450 to 1000 traffic signals have 44 employees to help manage that.

This is a concern Times Opinion shares as the world’s nine nuclear powers expand and enhance their arsenals. Proliferation by new nations is coming closer to reality, and threats to use nuclear ...

At its Oct. 15 regular meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners allocated $29 million to its Tropical Storm Helene ...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the southeast recently, straining the fund’s ability to issue low-interest loans.

Officials say federal disaster workers have resumed door-to-door visits as part of hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina.

The countdown is on to Rachel Reeves's first budget as chancellor - and it seems the doom-mongering from the top of the Labour government has affected how we're all feeling about our finances.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 3-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump - 45% to 42% - as the two stayed locked in a tight race to win the Nov. 5 U.S ...