On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott called Texas lawmakers back to the state capitol for a special session on, among other issues, flood relief and mid-decade redistricting. In ...

KERRVILL, Texas (KTRK) -- As the 89th legislature continues ... leaving flood relief and disaster preparedness as top-of-mind issues for lawmakers as they continue this special legislative session.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers on Wednesday scrutinized the state's emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people after a top Republican said legislators had no ...

The temptation for many people is to drop everything and go help the victims. And that's the wrong thing to do unless you have specialized training and also an invitation to go with an official group.

In 1976, a flood killed 144 people in Big Thompson Canyon in Colorado. The similarities to this month’s flood in central ...

The Trump administration official running the Federal Emergency Management Agency testified Wednesday the response to flash ...

Joellen Russell, an oceanographer at the University of Arizona, says her identities as climate scientist and concerned mother ...

The disastrous flooding in the Texas Hill Country is at the confluence of two crises: climate change and a torrent of U.S. debt. They are related, and the federal response is making both worse. First, ...

FEMA acting administrator David Richardson defended the agency’s response, denying claims of delays and calling the ...

Lawmakers serving on special committees investigating deadly floods blasted a river authority for failing to build a flood ...