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State Rep. Wes Virdell, whose district includes Kerr County, voted against House Bill 13 earlier this year. The bill would ...

Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump ...

The county’s largest city, Kerrville, declined to participate in a joint grant application that would have required a $50,000 ...

Recordings provided to CBS News showed first responders asking for an emergency alert to be sent, but dispatchers delayed because they needed special authorization.

More than 160 people still are believed to be missing and at least 118 have died in the floods that laid waste to the Hill Country region of Texas. Crews used backhoes and their bare hands Wednesday ...

River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate ...

Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and ...