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A DEVASTATING photo showing the smiling faces of the Camp Mystic girls has become the symbol of the Texas floods as the death ...

More than 160 people are missing and the confirmed death toll has climbed to nearly 120 after flash floods devastated parts of central Texas. Follow here for the latest.

Five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic remain unaccounted for as local officials face mounting questions over who ...

For members of TEXSAR, a group of skilled volunteers aiding with search and recovery efforts in the Texas Hill Country, the ...

At least 118 people are dead across Texas after flooding on July 4th weekend. More than 170 people across the state are ...

A Burnet community is rallying behind a man who lost his son in the deadly flooding over the July 4th weekend, including raising money for his family through a fundraiser on Saturday.

Jonathan McComb was the only one of his family to survive a Texas flood in 2015. Now he's in Kerrville to help after another ...

The death toll from the July 4th weekend flooding in Central Texas has risen to at least 110. In Kerr County alone, 161 people remain missing.

AT least three people have died in flash floods in New Mexico as the catastrophe that has devastated Texas moves through America. It comes as Texas is reeling from its deadly floods that claimed ...

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

More than 100 people have died across six counties after flash flooding from heavy rain began affecting the state last week.