Lawmakers serving on special committees investigating deadly floods blasted a river authority for failing to build a flood warning system on the Guadalupe River.

The first request for a death investigation came in around 8:15 a.m. on July 4, when Kerr County sheriff’s deputies were summoned to a riverside address in Ingram a few ticks we

"She was recovered in the Kerrville area," Abbott said in a statement on social media. The deadly flooding over the Fourth of July weekend killed at least 136 people, including dozens of girls at Camp Mystic, along the Guadalupe River, according to officials.

I can’t see anything we did wrong,” David Richardson told a House panel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Shortly after, floods ripped through North Carolina, parts of the Midwest, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C. And, last Monday night, as rain crashed down on New York and New Jersey, phones lit up, warning residents of imminent flooding.

The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, has resigned due to frustration over the agency's response to the flooding in Central Texas, sources say.

An additional $5,000 per month will be disbursed to each lawmaker to pay for personal security through the end of the year. In 2024, the US Capitol Police investigated more than 9,000 threats against lawmakers,

MARBLE FALLS — The first breath of the bagpipes rose like smoke into still air. They wailed the notes of “Amazing Grace” as two chestnut-brown horses marched solemnly around the ring of the Marble Falls Rodeo on Friday. In the long shadows of an evening summer sun, dozens of first responders and hundreds of spectators watched in silence.

The Upper Guadalupe River Authority had a $3 million reserve, but cut taxes rather than replacing an outdated flood alert system before the July 4 Hill