Almost a third of Americans live in unincorporated communities beyond city limits, where disaster aid can confuse and frustrate.

Leaders must be held accountable not only for how they respond after tragedy, but what they do to prevent it. It's not enough ...

The parents of the 27 girls who died at Camp Mystic have pushed for improved safety protocols for summer camps. But they didn't expect the camp to announce it would reopen soon.

The Tennessee Valley Authority and Greene County officials gathered at the Nolichucky Dam Thursday to speak about its resilience the night hurricane Helene came through ...

Three months after floods hit central Texas, senior editor at Texas Monthly Aaron Parsley shares his experience when he and his family were swept away by rushing water and how they're moving forward.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District gave an update on its multiyear General Information Study on mitigating flood risk in Tittabawassee River Watershed in Midland County.

In September 2024, Tennessee Valley Authority staff at the dam were dealing with a once-in-a-thousand-year flood. Three rivers – the French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon – converge at Douglas Lake.

Work on Austin’s first city park came to a halt in August 1897. Money had run out for the project along the Cedar River’s west shoreline upstream of the downtown dam at Water Street (4th Ave NE) ...

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill 18 -- a bill passed unanimously in the second-called special session that would remove ...

Lake Buchanan is basically full. That means there is no room to store additional water, so any rain over the lake, or importantly, any rain upstream of the lake, will need to be passed downstream ...

If this summer’s special sessions were a midterm exam on disaster preparation, Texas lawmakers would probably get an A. But ...

INGRAM, Texas — The Ingram Dam is a hotspot for outdoor recreation in the City of Ingram. People walk, fish and even slide down the dam for fun. Right across from the dam is a shopping center called ...