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In the wake of July's deadly flooding in Central Texas, state leaders are turning to researchers in North Texas. The Texas Water Development Board has tapped the University of Texas at Arlington's ...

Some of the worst floods in Texas history struck during Memorial Day weekend, turning roads into rivers overnight.

Parents of the Camp Mystic girls who died during the Guadalupe River flooding of July 4, 2025, fill seats in the Senate chamber Thursday night to view the passage of Senate Bill 1, called the Heaven's ...

KERRVILLE, Texas — Greg Adkins is reminded every day of the catastrophic flooding that ripped through the Texas Hill Country exactly two months ago Thursday. That’s because he survived the natural ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas — Newly constructed eight-foot aluminum towers are now rising along the riverbanks at Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country — part of a first-of-its-kind flood-detection system ...

Less than a year ago, the Guadalupe River swallowed everything in its path. Houses. Roadways. Lives. For many Central Texans, ...

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For months, Central Texans had been praying for rain. But here, beside a bend in the Guadalupe River, where a dusty floodplain extended for hundreds of yards in every direction, each day of drought ...

This 1972 weather event is the biggest flood to hit the U.S. in the last 100 years. In the eastern Black Hills of South Dakota near Rapid City, a stationary group of thunderstorms began around 5 p.m.

AUSTIN - On the morning of July 4, Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd drove 90 minutes to Kerrville after first learning about the devastation of overnight floods. When he arrived ...