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 intention of criticizing or...

The deadly July 4 flash floods in Texas have prompted a lot of questions and soul-searching: about the failures of early-warning systems, the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Servic...

The Chronicle report, published Wednesday morning, found that the Upper Guadalupe River Authority was only willing to spend about $100,000 to upgrade its flood warning system after a 2016 engineering...