Two Congressmen have partnered on a bipartisan bill to reclassify the National Weather Service Employees as critical to ...

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

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

"If you think about the kind of weather we have in Nebraska, if it's not a tornado, it's a wildfire; if it's not a wildfire, ...

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 ...

U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Gary Peters introduced the Federal Operational Resilience in Emergency Conditions and Storm ...

The proposed measure also would grant the weather service temporary hiring authority for positions related to public safety.