The National Weather Service has lifted its hiring freeze and is now accepting applications for mission-critical positions to ...

Lawmakers from both parties have so far rejected steep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas ...

Concerns are rising over the accuracy of hurricane forecasts this year due to staffing and budget cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, WJAX, our partners in Jacksonville, ...

WASHINGTON >> Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly ...

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 ...

Experts said the NWS did a good job warning about the flooding, but questions remain about whether the cuts played a role.

Former National Weather Service director Elbert W. “Joe” Friday, who led the agency from 1988 to 1997, said he watched the hearing and was “disappointed” at Jacobs’s statements about ...

The White House has proposed a $4.5 billion budget for NOAA in fiscal year 2026, which begins on October 1—a substantial decrease from the $6.1 billion that Congress appropriated to NOAA through ...

There were about 600 employee cuts at the National Weather Service — about 100 probationary employees and 500 buyouts. The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget would increase the National ...

Former senior NOAA officials say transformative work will cease if the budget cuts are approved, particularly when combined with extensive cuts already made to staffing, research, grants and ...