A Kansas congressman on Friday introduced legislation to exempt National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists from federal ...

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

A bill introduced Friday would classify forecasters and other staff as critical public safety roles. It comes after the ...

Republican Representative Mike Flood and Democrat Eric Sorensen introduced the legislation Friday, putting forecasters in the same category as air traffic controller ...

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

"If you think about the kind of weather we have in Nebraska, if it's not a tornado, it's a wildfire; if it's not a wildfire, ...

The National Weather Service has lost 600 employees, or roughly 15 percent of its workforce in the past four months.

HOUSTON — Experts are sounding the alarm about the latest round of federal job cuts ... and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service. Meteorologists and local experts weighed ...

also said “hundreds of scientists and experts at NOAA” were let go. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said on social media that the job cuts ...

It may soon be illegal for the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue non-severe weather forecasts under the provisions of the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, Senate Bill S.