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For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...
Concerns are rising over the accuracy of hurricane forecasts this year due to staffing and budget cuts at the National ...
Nominee says he would work to undo the workforce cuts from the last few months, though the process could take time.
Federal funding that pays for much of the Great Lakes water, weather and ice cover monitoring is at risk in the Trump ...
The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its staffing levels ahead Central Texas' catastrophic flooding. The big picture: The ...
Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.
The National Weather Service, which is responsible for tracking storms and warning the public about them, has lost hundreds of employees to federal cuts and voluntary resignations. Five former NWS ...
Keeping state-of-the-art weather forecasting and preparedness outreach is a national responsibility, not, as Reagan’s 1981 statement would have it, a government annoyance.
State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts and ...
In a statement, the NWS said it was “heartbroken by the tragic loss of life in Kerr County.” It did not address questions about staffing but provided a detailed timeline of the warnings it ...
Seeing the public safety need for weather readings, U.S. Rep. Mike Flood helped bring back the Omaha/Valley National Weather Service's balloon launches as well as staff to facilitate them.