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At least 13 fatalities were reported Friday as devastating floods slammed Texas' Hill Country with water rescues taking place ...

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

Search and rescue operations in central Texas entered their fifth day on Tuesday after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Guadalupe River, sending floodwaters through homes and summer camps and killing ...

The bodies of 94 flood victims, more than a third of them children, have been recovered in Kerr County alone. Read more at ...

Her voice breaking, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that emergency responders in Texas are “still ...

A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency ...

And what should have been a celebration of America’s proudest day suddenly turned into an American tragedy.They had come to ...

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more intense in the eastern two-thirds of the country, including the southern ...