During fire season, the National Weather Service deploys meteorologists to major wildfires to keep firefighters updated on changing wind conditions and to predict where the fire will spread. "I can't ...

Amid the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is speaking out against ...

Wash., for speaking out against the Trump-Musk administration’s draconian cuts to veterans’ services (“Rescinded federal spending memo left officials scrambling in Snohomish County,” The Herald, Jan.

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he plans to vote to advance a House-passed six-month government funding bill, despite the strong ...

After Speaker of the House Mike Johnson succeeded in pushing a stopgap spending measure through his chamber Tuesday, Senate ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Marty Makary, passed a key committee ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

Senators told the Trump administration that Dr. Dave Weldon didn’t have the votes to be confirmed, though he had believed his ...

Forecast issued at 4:25 pm CDT on Thursday 13 March 2025. The chance of fog in the west in the early morning. Sunny day. Light winds becoming south to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the early ...