Experts warn that cuts to the federal firefighting workforce could hamper preparations for this year’s peak fire season.

Trump ordered the largest reversal of land monument protections in American history in 2017 when he signed an order to reduce Bears Ears National Monument in Utah by 85% and cut the Grand ...

Hundreds of terminated federal workers might have hope on the horizon, after a federal labor board issued an order to reinstate all probationary employees.

The USDA, which contains the U.S. Forest Service, announced it would comply with an order to temporarily rehire roughly 6,000 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a statement Tuesday, saying all USDA probationary employees that were terminated ...

Under the new bill, any fired feds who get reinstated could pick up where they left off in their probationary periods, instead of starting from scratch.

Some Republicans push bills to protect workers as thousands of fired feds will rejoin the payroll this week, albeit on ...

The decision follows a directive from the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which on March 5 ordered the USDA to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs ...

The Agriculture Department says it will pay probationary employees fired last month back pay and work on a “phased plan” for ...

The department's decision was forced by the MSPB, an independent federal court that focuses on employee complaints. Here's ...

The Agriculture Department said it will comply with the Merit Systems Protection Board’s order to begin reinstating ...

Thousands of U.S. Forest Service probationary employees lost their jobs in federal cuts in February. However, due to a new ...