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Four days after the devastating flash floods in Texas Hill Country, local officials and law enforcement in Kerr County couldn ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is pouring $250 million into a new building at Starbase that it's dubbed "gigabay" and intended to help ...

And what should have been a celebration of America’s proudest day suddenly turned into an American tragedy.They had come to ...

Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they ...

Search and rescue operations in central Texas entered their fifth day on Tuesday after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Guadalupe River, sending floodwaters through homes and summer camps and killing ...

"Over the weekend, during the devastating flooding that hit Central Texas, family—like so many others—suffered a heartbreaking and deeply personal loss. We are grieving alongside countless Texans ...

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more intense in the eastern two-thirds of the country, including the southern ...

Keen, who is perhaps known for his hit song "The Road Goes On Forever," shared the message on social media, saying Camp ...

A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency ...

At least 13 fatalities were reported Friday as devastating floods slammed Texas' Hill Country with water rescues taking place ...