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Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more ...

Kerrville police braved the deadly floods on July 4, rescuing hundreds. Read how the officers united under pressure to serve ...

At least 161 people were missing from Kerr County alone, officials said. Several children were among the missing.

Search and rescue operations continue to comb through the region as crews work to clean up the mountains of debris throughout ...

“For the Heart of Texas: A Benefit for the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund” will be held the afternoon of Sunday, July 13, at ...

Virginia Wynne Naylor, 8, was at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County, when the floods hit on July 4. Her family confirmed her death in a ...

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha asked residents to avoid flood-damaged areas and not disturb debris piles that might contain ...

Kerr County officials say they are still focused mainly on the search for survivors with hundreds still missing and weren't ...