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For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the ...
Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond ...
Some governors and mayors are concerned over how current or potential cuts to agencies will impact how the government can ...
The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of ...
Nearly a week after deadly floods struck Central Texas, search and rescue teams are continuing to probe debris for those ...
The risk of heavy rainfall and severe weather is expected to return to the Lone Star State over the weekend, but it will ...
NWS says Flash Flood Warnings were issued on July 3 and early July 4 in Central Texas, giving more than three hours of ...
"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.
Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of jobs as the National Weather Service earlier this year.
DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend ...
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency ...