Officials are responding to high water after recent rains in the Texas Hill Country by opening dam floodgates and temporarily banning watercraft use on several Austin-area waterways. Amid floodgate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donovan Allen, 50, picks his tools and bolts out of the mud where they were washed by flooding at the Kerrville KOA near Goat ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday morning, a chance sighting of a person in one of the tunnels at Mansfield Dam ended with a widespread law enforcement search, according to the Lower Colorado River Authority ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A sight that hasn’t been seen since 2007, happened Monday morning. Around 8 a.m. a floodgate on Mansfield Dam was open. The dam forms Lake Travis, which has had declining water levels ...

LAKE TRAVIS, Texas — Due to all of the flooding across the Highland Lakes region, four flood gates have been opened at Mansfield Dam. Since those flood gates were opened, a strong odor has been coming ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — Multiple law enforcement officials responded to reports of a trespasser at Mansfield Dam on Tuesday, but nothing wrong seemed to be found. At a press conference at around 3 p.m.

The Lower Colorado River Authority will begin closing floodgates at Mansfield Dam on Thursday, but Lake Travis and other Highland Lakes on the Colorado River will remain closed until at least Friday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Mansfield Dam flood gate is opened on Saturday, July 18, 2026. At the time of opening the gate, Lake Travis was at 104% capacity ...