With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...

Meteorologists and former National Weather Service leaders say reducing vital weather balloon launches will degrade the ...

Meteorologists and former agency leaders say the cuts in weather balloon launches will degrade the accuracy of forecasts just ...

Weather balloons are an “essential piece of the forecasting system.” But there will be fewer of them in tornado season this ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight ...

Mount Spurr lies about 80 miles west of Anchorage, which is Alaska's most populous city, making it one of the state's most closely watched volcanoes. It last erupted in 1992, spreading ash over ...

The Nanooks turned a back-and-forth battle into a blowout using an explosive fourth quarter surge to win the program’s third ...

Last month, in western Alaska, 10 people died when a small commuter plane that was overweight by half a ton crashed into sea ice in the Norton Sound, near Nome on the state’s western coast.

Mr Burgum said the agency planned to reopen the 82 per cent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that is available for leasing for development and reopen the 631,000 ha Coastal Plain of the ...