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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 ...

Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as more than 160 are missing as rescuers continue a desperate search ...

Brooklyn and Bailey MckNight's little sister, Paisley, was at a camp on a smaller arm of the Guadalupe River. The 14-year-old ...

When tragedies are in the news — natural disasters, plane crashes, fires — parents naturally and unavoidably react by ...

Along the Guadalupe River, a 60-room inn and nearby homes were quickly filling with water. Confusion, desperation and heroism ...

As hope dims for finding survivors, questions are swirling around whether the emergency plan Camp Mystic laid out was ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dozens of University of Texas at Austin students and community members crowded in front of the UT Tower ...

By SOPHIA TAREEN A small-town grandmother who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of Texas summer camp for ...

This week, our collective experience is pure heartache as we watch the news unfold after the catastrophic flooding in Texas.