KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — 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 came barreling through the region, causing ...

Local officials and people directly impacted by the deadly flooding in early July asked lawmakers to make improvements to the state’s disaster response efforts ...

To those who ask, ‘What would you have done differently?’ The honest answer is that based on the data we had at the time, there was no clear indicator that a catastrophic flood was imminent,” William ...

As catastrophic floods on the Fourth of July swept through the Texas Hill Country, killing more than 100 people, one Kerr ...

Communities hit by the deadly Independence Day floods face a desperate and confused recovery bereft of state and federal aid, ...

For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency ...

In the aftermath of the deadly July 4 floods, the need for warning systems has been sounded by elected officials and members of the public.

Texas lawmakers pressed Kerr County leaders on July 4 flood failures that killed 107 people, citing delays in alerts and lack of evacuation preparation.

The hearing this morning is the first time a panel of lawmakers is visiting the hard-hit Texas Hill Country since the floods.

Their statements to state legislators marked the first time county officials have spoken publicly about what they were doing the morning of the disaster that killed more than 100 people in the county.

Kerr County officials testified before state lawmakers on Thursday, July 31, during a public hearing on disaster preparedness and flooding. They provided details and defended their actions during the ...