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State and local officials said they did their best to coordinate evacuations and rescues, but better cellphone service might ...

Flood risks are intensifying as Texas experiences more extreme rainfall. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon and colleagues at Texas A&M University found that extreme one-day precipitation has ...

Ironically, congressional sponsors of the McCarran-Walter Act were at odds with the White House when the law was enacted in 1952. They overrode a veto by President Harry S. Truman, who thought the law ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened magnetic field, more harmful radiation would have reached Earth’s surface, ...

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a ...

Over the weekend, 6 to 10 inches of rain fell over central Texas, leading to more flooding including along the Llano, ...

Gov. Greg Abbott provided an update to the flood recovery efforts on Monday, announcing 101 people are still missing and 131 ...

The federal response to the flash flooding disaster in Texas has come under scrutiny. President Trump, who has called for ...

Many states, including Texas, have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other ...

An Illinois Urban Search and Rescue Team of 39 rescuers has been deployed to Texas to assist with operations following a week of deadly flooding, as part of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System.

Flood warnings remain in effect across the Hill Country on Monday as thunderstorms and heavy rain continue to batter the region ...