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

NOAA's former leader points to staffing cuts and lack of key personnel as contributing factors in the mismanagement of recent ...

The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for parts of the River Valley in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.

Texas flood survivor Julia Hatfield recounts how she and her husband escaped flash flooding at an RV park in Kerr County, Texas.

Few myths are more pervasive in American life than the notion of Texas as a bastion of “ rugged individualism ” — the idea born of lonesome cowboys and wildcat oil drillers that the Lone Star State is ...

At a news conference Friday, W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said the National Weather Service had initially predicted “3 to 6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and ...

Without a modern flood warning system, emergency officials monitor four sensors along the Guadalupe River – including one ...

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KERR COUNTY, TEXAS: A July 4th holiday turned into heartbreak at Blue Oak RV Park when a sudden flash flood swept through the area, claiming several lives. One of the victims, John Burgess of Liberty, ...

Some roads in the River Valley have started to flood as heavy rain pours down. Highway 45 and Burrow Road in Fort Smith have been the subject of flooding reports, a police dispatcher confirmed. Follow ...

Search and rescue efforts continued overnight in Texas for the dozens of people still missing from the devastating flash ...