After the death toll in the catastrophic flash floods in Texas reached at least 104 people, including 27 campers and ...

T he White House and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz defended the National Weather Service and accused some Democrats of playing ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer is pressing the NWS’s watchdog to probe whether Trump’s cuts worsened the recent catastrophe.

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the ...

The U.S. Senate's top Democrat on Monday asked a government watchdog to investigate whether cuts at the National Weather ...

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency ...

The National Weather Service issued several forecasts Tuesday through Thursday morning, warning of the risk of flash flooding ...

Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said ...

In a letter, Schumer wondered if vacant positions at the National Weather Service led to delayed warnings. Some Democratic leaders are calling for an investigation into the National Weather Service to ...

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) commented on key vacancies in the National Weather Service following deadly flooding in central ...