Trump extended a federal hiring freeze until Oct. 15, with exceptions for the military, immigration enforcement and national ...

When 5 p.m. arrives at the Priest River Experimental Forest, it's time to check the weather. Each day, as afternoon turns into evening, the U.S. Forest Service research staffer based at the ...

Cutting or disbanding the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Division would have far-flung impacts extending beyond parks.

Sen. Jerry Moran rebuked the Trump administration’s hiring freeze — which has since been ended for the National Weather Service.

About 50%-75% of drownings occur in open water such as oceans, lakes, rivers, and ponds. Some estimates indicate that the ...

Most agencies will now face a moratorium on hiring at least through mid-October after Trump issues his third freeze order.

By the time the hiring freeze lifts this fall, agencies will have been largely unable to hire new federal employees or fill ...

Big Bend, one of the largest national parks in the U.S., is now operating with just half the staff it needs. As part of a ...

At the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland, visitors this summer are seeing shuttered lifeguard towers and signs warning that no lifeguards are on duty.

One week before a hiring freeze for federal agencies was set to be lifted, President Donald Trump’s administration has ...

The agency is also struggling to recruit staff for front-line positions as the parks hit their busiest season.