Droughts have a similar effect: When soil dries out over long periods, it can become compacted or even crusted over, reducing its ability to absorb water. Severe to extreme preexisting drought ...

According to Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's top elected official, "the public reeled at the cost" of flash flood ...

Posts claimed Deshawn Miller rescued at least nine elderly residents trapped in a retirement complex amid flooding in Kerr ...

Central Texas is infamous for its flash flooding and arid soil, hard-packed ground into which water does not easily ...

Cindy and James Rushing, East Texas visitors to a Kerrville RV park, faced flooding so fierce that “everything (was) gone — ...

In the wake of disaster, people are relying on the volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country.

U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to central Texas on Friday to survey damage from the July 4 flash flood that killed at ...

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, are expected to visit flood-ravaged areas of Central Texas on Friday to ...

Jane Towler was up late in a small cabin along the Guadalupe River as thunder boomed through a thrashing rain. It was 4 a.m. and water ...

As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of ...

Stacy Stevens, whose daughter Mary Barrett Stevens was among the 27 killed when tragedy struck the all-girls Christian camp on July 4, said the youngster’s beloved brown monkey was swept away in the ...