South Dakota’s three National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices are short of staff and sending up fewer weather balloons ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Fahy said that for meteorologists specifically, the Lake Charles office has a vacancy rate of nearly 39%, the highest in the ...