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Four days after the devastating flash floods in Texas Hill Country, local officials and law enforcement in Kerr County couldn ...

Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they ...

Frank Syfan stood amidst the wreckage of his childhood memories, surveying the damage wrought by a devastating flood that ...

Catastrophic flooding in Texas has devastated faith-based summer camps, including Camp Mystic, where at least 27 people have ...

The death toll climbs to 87 in Kerr County as the search continues for victims of the July 4 Guadalupe River flooding.

Residents say Kerr County’s use of CodeRED alerts was sporadic and inconsistent. Local officials have not answered questions ...

One of the first people to begin posting images of the devastating flooding in Hunt, Texas, spoke with us today about ...

Hundreds of rescuers on Tuesday (Jul 8) continued their search for people swept away by catastrophic floods in Texas that ...

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...

A student at the Savannah College of Art and Design died in the Texas flooding over the weekend. Her family reported her ...

Joyce Catherine Badon, a 21-year-old senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design, died in the flooding, the school said ...