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Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing the state’s emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people.

Dozens of girls were killed in the July 4 floods at the height of summer camp season. Who should have known better?

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte March wrote a song about her love for summer camp, then turned it into a fundraiser for families ...

Dozens of Texas parents gathered outside the White House a short time ago, demanding accountability and action.The group set out 27 children’s ...

The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, ...

Although the in-kind donations have been helpful, items donated don’t always match the needs of the communities that receive ...

For those of us in tech, we should remember the importance of using our talent and training not just to streamline corporate ...

Torrential rain flooded creeks, streams and the Guadalupe River, where the water swelled more than 26 feet in 45 minutes.

Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before ...

In the early hours of the morning on July 4, flood waters rapidly rose the Guadalupe River to 30 feet above its normal height ...

Camps are essentially on their own in terms of crafting a plan to deal with weather emergencies. Alabama camps must get ...