State and local officials are preparing for possible changes to federal disaster relief following President Donald Trump’s ...

A KHOU 11 viewer noticed social media posts claiming blue tarps were available for free in the Houston area due to damage caused by the severe storms.

The solution is simple: FEMA should immediately redirect its standby contractors from getting ready to install blue tarps and haul in mobile homes to rapidly fixing Floridians’ homes.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is best known for its quick responses—think blue tarps and temporary trailers—to horrific natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and, more recently ...

“Gutting FEMA is just going to make more and more families have to be living under blue tarps for years, and not to have the financial assistance they deserve when they pay their taxes," Inslee ...

For example, FEMA will put blue tarps on roofs to minimize the rain that gets into a house. It can cost them, in contracts, $7,500 to $10,000 to put a tarp on a roof.

The program, which provides temporary tarps to protect damaged roofs until repairs can be made, has been extended nine days to Nov. 14.

Some homeowners in Lee and Charlotte counties could get blue tarps installed for free after Hurricane Ian wrecked their roofs. Check to see whether you qualify.

We don’t need paper towels, blue tarps or plywood, Mr. Trump. We need serious solutions to man-made meteorological changes that threaten our way of life.

FEMA eventually terminated the contracts, without paying any money, and re-started the process this month to supply more tarps for the island.

A newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from FEMA to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs and never delivered.

Pinellas County residents who sustained damage to their roofs can get a temporary blue tarp installed for free.