The USDA, which contains the U.S. Forest Service, announced it would comply with an order to temporarily rehire roughly 6,000 ...

Thousands of U.S. Forest Service probationary employees lost their jobs in federal cuts in February. However, due to a new ...

Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state ...

The decision follows a directive from the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which on March 5 ordered the USDA to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs ...

The Agriculture Department said it will comply with the Merit Systems Protection Board’s order to begin reinstating ...

Fired U.S. Forest Service workers and other probationary employees of the Department of Agriculture who lost their jobs in a mass firing last month will return, at least temporarily, to the federal ...

It was unclear whether the USDA or Forest Service would actually follow the order to reinstate the employees. Remaining ...

The approximately 360 Montana-based federal Forest Service workers laid off in a blanket federal workforce reduction ...

The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the ...

In an Asheville visit March 6, the US Secretary of Agriculture commented on Forest Service firings, Hendersonville's Farm ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Asheville Thursday to survey fire and Helene damage with U.S. Forest ...