After conflicting reports, the National Weather Service refused to say Monday whether its Marquette office has enough staff ...

New bipartisan legislation is being introduced to protect 24/7 forecasting with the National Weather Service (NWS).

Two Congressmen have partnered on a bipartisan bill to reclassify the National Weather Service Employees as critical to public safety, allowing for faster hiring across hundreds of vacant positions.

The FORECAST Act would exempt positions responsible for issuing weather and flood warnings, maintaining critical observational equipment and protecting life and property. Additionally, the bill requir ...

US Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas is among several lawmakers in Congress seeking to exempt certain National Weather Service ...

The proposal comes after a National Weather Service office in the Omaha area announced pausing weather balloon deployments in ...

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

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

Becker told The Hill last week that the National Weather Service Employees Organization is “very concerned about the operational readiness of 122 Weather Forecast Offices due to this the already ...

The Trump administration is seeking to reassign other employees to “critically understaffed” offices in the National Weather Service (NWS), according to an internal document. The move to ...