The Weather Workforce Improvement Act would reclassify NWS employees as critical public safety officials and grant the NWS ...

The proposed measure also would grant the weather service temporary hiring authority for positions related to public safety.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran from Kansas has introduced legislation to exempt National Weather Service meteorologists from federal ...

Representative Mike Flood announced a bill on Friday to make employees of the National Weather Service classified as public safety mission function workers.

A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...

Houston officials watch closely as FEMA loses 2,000 staff members ahead of a hurricane season predicted to produce 13 to 19 ...

Thousands of federal employees are being asked to return after abrupt layoffs disrupted tax processing, weather alerts, drug ...

Additionally, this legislation requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit a report after one year of enactment on staffing ...

U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Gary Peters introduced the Federal Operational Resilience in Emergency Conditions and Storm ...

Leaders in federal, state and local governments often have different ideas about how to mitigate future floods in NC.

The National Weather Service's staffing shortage is affecting forecast accuracy, as balloon launch data decreases.