All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people were absent from an emergency briefing call held before the tragedy unfolded, ...

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood that caused widespread destruction and killed more than 130 people.

Volunteers move stuffed animals and other tributes to flooding victims while they secure a newly installed cross across the ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced legislation aiming to “modernize weather radio emergency alerts” following the deadly floods in Texas’ Hill Country.

The top two emergency management officials in Kerr County told lawmakers Thursday that they were asleep in the early morning hours of July 4 when floodwaters rose.