Kerr County, Texas, officials dodged questions at a news briefing regarding the county's alert system for the flash floods ...

Texas is reported to be eligible to receive approximately $11 billion from the federal government as reimbursement for Gov.

While Texas may feel far from the Northeast, the lessons from the Texas Hill Country disaster matter here, too, particularly ...

As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades ...

Death toll surpasses 100 as hope fades in search for dozens still missing - Ten campers and a staff member from Camp Mystic ...

Few myths are more pervasive in American life than the notion of Texas as a bastion of “ rugged individualism ” — the idea born of lonesome cowboys and wildcat oil drillers that the Lone Star State is ...

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100. The number of deaths ...

At a news conference Friday, W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said the National Weather Service had initially predicted “3 to 6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and ...

Archived minutes from a 2016 Kerr County Commissioners Court meeting indicate the conversation about implementing a flood warning system dates back years.

Explore the devastating Texas floods, the search for survivors, and the controversies surrounding the response efforts.

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KERR COUNTY, TEXAS: A July 4th holiday turned into heartbreak at Blue Oak RV Park when a sudden flash flood swept through the area, claiming several lives. One of the victims, John Burgess of Liberty, ...