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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 ...

Robert Earl Keen, a Texas music legend who has a ranch in Kerrville and whose daughters attended Camp Mystic, talks about the ...

Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly ...

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

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

Canadian summer camp organizers say they expect a ripple effect of bolstered emergency plans and preparations this summer after more than two dozen campers and camp counsellors were killed by severe ...

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

Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a ...

With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a ...