Over the weekend, officials in Texas announced that the number of people missing after the July 4 floods had dropped from ...

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At least 135 people have been killed in "catastrophic" flash flooding across Texas, while several others remain missing.

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said investigators work the missing person and decedent list “just like we would work ...

The aftermath of deadly flooding in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend has moved to the top of the agenda for a special legislative session that started this week.

Thirty years after a heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago, a sociologist explains how governments deflected blame after ...

Kerr County, where 135 people lost their lives on July 4, had no alert system in place, as taxpayers had refused to fund it. Lawmakers are examining an overhaul of natural disaster management during a ...