The hiring freeze exemption comes after congressional Democrats and conservation groups warned that national parks could be ...

Some employees in the National Park Service and other federal agencies who manage public lands in the Greater Yellowstone ...

The Interior Department committed Tuesday to hiring seasonal employees for national parks, while confusion lingered within ...

The Trump administration’s order to freeze hiring has stopped interviews and background checks for prospective federal workers, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The move canceled thousands of ...

Reno Fire Chief David Cochran says a funding freeze on federal seasonal firefighters would mean weakened response ...

Hawaii, and 21 of her Senate colleagues are calling on newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to address critical ...

Some parks are scrambling to rely on volunteers, but there are limits to what volunteers can do. Experts warn that a freeze ...

U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen is pushing the Trump administration to exempt seasonal firefighters from a federal hiring freeze.

Due to a looming widespread federal government funding freeze, the National Park Service said it had to lay off over 2,000 ...

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner (both D-VA) joined their colleagues in writing a letter urging newly-confirmed U.S ...

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine have expressed significant concern over staffing shortages in the National Park Service (NPS) resulting from President Trump's recent federal hiring freeze. In ...