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At a packed hearing in Kerrville, Texas, families demand answers after learning the emergency manager was asleep during the ...

The five-year-old plan, required by the state, detailed when additional monitoring was to take place and who was responsible ...

Hill Country leaders and residents urge lawmakers for better flood warning systems after losing 108 lives, including 37 children, in a July Fourth tragedy.

KERRVILLE, Texas — Texas lawmakers grilled Kerr County leaders Thursday about their whereabouts when deadly floodwaters raged through the Guadalupe River July 4, accusing them of essentially being ...

There was a hearing yesterday in Kerr County, Texas as desperate residents demanded to know where the help was after the devastating floods. Via the New York Times: As soon as the raging waters ...

All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, ...

Volunteers move stuffed animals and other tributes to flooding victims while they secure a newly installed cross across the ...

To those who ask, ‘What would you have done differently?’ The honest answer is that based on the data we had at the time, there was no clear indicator that a catastrophic flood was imminent,” William ...

Flood relief is one of many items the Texas Legislature is taking up in the 30-day special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott.

Local officials and people directly impacted by the deadly flooding in early July asked lawmakers to make improvements to the state’s disaster response efforts ...

Two Sheboygan firefighters spent two weeks in Texas with Wisconsin's Task Force 1, conducting water search and rescue operations after devastating floods.