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

The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired meteorologists at the ...

Tom Skilling, former chief meteorologist for WGN TV, joins Lisa Dent to chat about his life in retirement, the effect of the ...

Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent months. Meteorologists say 125 expected new ...

The Lake Charles office was among the hardest hit in Louisiana, and now some lost jobs may be filled again. Here's what to ...

the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration’s National Weather Service. Now this federal agency, which serves as the backbone of U.S. forecasting, is under threat. What happens when the country ...

WASHINGTON -- As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode. The agency's office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as ...

The sun sets on the National Weather Service office in Cheyenne, which no longer operates overnight. The office serves southeast Wyoming and the western Nebraska Panhandle. As tornadoes and severe ...

Brian Simms [email protected] Much has been made of the National Weather Service’s capacity to forecast weather events following the devastating tornadoes that ripped through Somerset and ...