The consequences rippled throughout the local criminal justice system. Defendants and victims said the delays eroded their confidence in seeing justice done. In some of the most troubling cases, ...

Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county. Police in ...

A leaked report recommends halving the size of the nation’s disaster response agency, while holding states responsible for a ...

Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale donated 600 mattresses to flood victims and first responders in Kerr County, offering crucial ...

In the wake of this summer's catastrophic flooding, Texas cities and counties are undertaking multimillion-dollar projects ...

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As a storm pounded the Texas Hill Country, an RV park operator asked for an update on flooding and advice on how to protect ...

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale wasn’t at Saturday’s flood-recovery mattress giveaway because he sent his employees — and ...

We're just a few days away from San Antonio city leaders potentially voting on changing the dates of city elections.

In Breckenridge, there’s an unknown grave of a woman who was found and buried in the 1980s. Until now, no one knew who she ...

When deadly flash floodwaters swept through the Texas Hill Country, a high school student and his future Farmers of America classmates rushed in to wade through the devastation to clear debris and ...