Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood ...

Texas lawmakers began questioning local Kerr County officials over their preparedness and response to the deadly July 4 ...

Local officials in Texas emphasized the need for river gauges and real-time rainfall monitoring to better predict flash ...

"The three guys in Kerr County who were responsible for sounding the alarm were effectively unavailable,” said Representative ...

Local officials and people directly impacted by the deadly flooding in early July asked lawmakers to make improvements to the state’s disaster response efforts ...

The mayor of a Texas city at the center of flash flooding that killed over 130 people earlier this month asked state ...

While loss of life may have been inevitable after the Guadalupe River flooded on July 4, missteps by authorities at the local level up to those in power in Washington may have worsened the tragedy.