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

The death toll from the Texas flooding disaster reached 105 victims on Tuesday as crews began to shift from rescue operations to recovery as the hope of finding survivors faded.The majority of the ...

Former worker for Camp Mystic, Emily Joyton, speaks about her time at the camp which claimed the lives of 27 campers on Friday, July 4, 2025.

Lyle and Sue Glenna, of Chisago City, heard an evacuation order early Friday and blared their car horns to wake up other ...

The nature of the hill country is such that flash flooding is a phenomenon that can really overtake communities in a very ...

At least 104 people are dead after heavy rain led to devastating flooding in Texas. Kerr County was hit the hardest, with at ...

( The Conversation) – Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through ...

While there's still hope in the Hill Country that survivors are still out here, finding bodies at least offers some level of ...

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 ...

By Renée Rigdon, Matt Stiles, Byron Manley, Lou Robinson, Rosa de Acosta, Soph Warnes, Gillian Ro(CNN) — The search for missing bodies continues along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and ...

Flash floods that swept through Texas over the Fourth of July weekend have left more than 100 people dead and dozens of ...