Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

Two years later, in 2020, according to Kerr County meeting minutes, that same commissioner said: “We’ve been trying to get a new flood warning system here.” ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas — The end of the holiday weekend brings continued searching and desperation in the Hill Country, where dozens remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flooding overwhelmed ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas -- Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors ...

Kerr County is located about 90 miles northwest of San Antonio. The area is home to multiple camps, but only campers from Camp Mystic were missing, Abbott said. By the evening of July 4, the Texas ...

Citing federal studies, Bettencourt worries alerts on cell phones can be ignored. A study of the effectiveness of the 2023 Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) national test alert showed, 17.5 percent of ...

By Zeke MacCormack, Staff WriterUpdatedAug 29, 2016 9:20 p.m. Sirens stand ready at the First Crossing as new flood warning systems are in place on the Guadalupe River downstream from Canyon Dam ...

On Sunday, Kelly said that several years ago, county officials considered implementing a flood warning system that would function like a tornado warning siren, before he was elected, but never did.