The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

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Texas officials labored to account for more than 160 people originally reported missing along the Guadalupe River after the ...

Two weeks after deadly floods swept through Texas, officials dropped the number of still-missing people in the hardest-hit ...

Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, ...

From jewelry to a heart-shaped summer camp sign, these are some of the objects found in the wake of this month's devastating ...

Families of missing loved ones face a unique and agonizing grief called ambiguous loss. Experts explain this as the pain of ...

The number of people missing since the July 4 floods in Texas dropped to three this weekend as authorities recovered victims, located those who turned out to be safe, and unmasked a few ...

FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

Kerr County officials provided few details on why the count changed so dramatically. At least 135 people died in the flooding ...