In response to widespread staff shortages at the National Weather Service, Representatives Mike Flood and Eric Sorensen have introduced the Weather Workforce Improvement Act, a bipartisan bill to ...

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

This bipartisan bill, if passed would put National Weather Service Meteorologists in the same category as FBI agents and air traffic controllers ...

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

is a meteorologist pushing the button at the National Weather Service. But as cuts continue to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The weather service, he said at the time, should be classified as a public safety entity to protect it from cost-cutting measures. James-Edward Klish, a hydrometeorological technician with the ...

The National Weather Service says it plans to hire more than 100 additional staff members. The move follows complaints and ...