The firings dealt a blow to an agency that provides everything from weather forecasts to fisheries management to cutting-edge climate science in Alaska.

Avalanches kill about two dozen people annually in the U.S. Predicting their likelihood, potential severity and location depends heavily on information provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The website lists nine leases in Alaska that have been canceled as of Sunday, including a NOAA facility in Seward, a Rural House Service operation in Palmer and a U.S. Geological

More federal workers were fired in Alaska yesterday, including at least four people from NOAA’s regional office in Juneau.

Former agency employees and leaders believe the mass NOAA layoffs could endanger critical work surrounding weather forecasting, shipping operations, and more.

NOAA staff members, like thousands of others, were caught up in the mass terminations underway in the federal government.

Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely

An anticipated mass firing of workers started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which could cut more than 10% of the agency’s employees, according to local and national officials.

Some typical NOAA and NWS services went dark almost immediately. Shortly after the firings, the National Weather Service office in Kotzebue, Alaska, said it would suspend releasing weather balloons.

Nationally, more than 800 people across NOAA, an organization of 13,000 staff members, were fired, the New York Times reported Thursday. In Alaska, it was not immediately clear how many had lost ...