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

Follow live updates on the Texas floods, where the death toll has surpassed 100, including Camp Mystic counselors and campers ...

NOAA's former leader points to staffing cuts and lack of key personnel as contributing factors in the mismanagement of recent ...

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 ...

Texas flood survivor Julia Hatfield recounts how she and her husband escaped flash flooding at an RV park in Kerr County, Texas.

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 ...

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas is dimming a day after the death toll surpassed 100.

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 ...

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

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