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In the aftermath of the 2025 Texas floods, a look back at some of the most destructive and defining flood events in the state ...
From hurricanes and floods to explosions and tornadoes, Texas has faced some of the nation’s most catastrophic events.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s favorite hangout in the Panhandle. Ulysses S. Grant’s East Texas escape. A wharf worker’s cottage in ...
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong ...
As search and rescue efforts continue in response to the “catastrophic” and deadly flooding of the Guadalupe River in Kerr ...
The death toll, as of Monday afternoon, of 90 fatalities, makes the Central Texas flash floods on July 4 the second-deadliest ...
In what experts call "Flash Flood Alley," the terrain reacts quickly to rainfall steep slopes, rocky ground, and narrow ...
Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, ...
A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.
The deadly flooding in central Texas has stunned the nation, but this isn't the first time this region has seen devastating ...
Tomas G. Pollard was an attorney and legislator elected as a state representative in 1919 and then a state senator in 1921.