As tornadoes tear across the Midwest and flooding devastates parts of Texas, a new bipartisan bill in Congress introduced by Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Rockford, is taking aim at staffing issues within the ...

The legislation would make NWS meteorologists and support staff "mission critical" public safety workers, giving them the same employment protections as airport Transportation Security Administration ...

Next comes a 43.6% cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, largely in the form of a $27.6 billion cut to rental assistance programs as that responsibility shifts back to the states.

You can leave your shoes on, a new TSA directive states. It probably won’t, as an over-the-top news release stated, help ...

In travel news this week: five Americans living in France and loving it, inside the cockpit of a self-landing plane, plus sweaty secrets of the TSA security checkpoints. Keep your cool It’s been a ...

Boston.com readers said in an informal poll that they agree with the end of the shoe removal policy at U.S. airports ...

In this week's news, The Homeland Security Department said the Transportation Security Administration's sudden reversal of ...

The appellate court’s opinion relates that a man named Robert McNees captured screenshots of Mackey’s posts and reported them ...

The Henderson City Council will discuss at its next meeting a $595,000 settlement with a man -- a decorated Navy veteran with no criminal history -- who a police detective mistakenly accused of a ...