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Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more ...

Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly ...

Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as more than 160 are missing as rescuers continue a desperate search ...

Along the Guadalupe River, a 60-room inn and nearby homes were quickly filling with water. Confusion, desperation and heroism ...

Kerr County officials say they are still focused mainly on the search for survivors with hundreds still missing and weren't ...

Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a ...

With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a ...

By SOPHIA TAREEN A small-town grandmother who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of Texas summer camp for ...

This week, our collective experience is pure heartache as we watch the news unfold after the catastrophic flooding in Texas.

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