Central Texas Flood

Devastating flooding is forcing authorities to rescue dozens of people while many more are fleeing higher ground in the state’s Hill Country.

Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors.

Officials at Camp Mystic said Thursday they are withdrawing their application for a camp license to operate this summer.

Texas state regulators found nearly two dozen deficiencies in the emergency operations plan submitted in Camp Mystic’s bid to reopen less than a year after 27 children and counselors were killed in a devastating flood.

Cecilia “Cile” Steward’s parents threw her a ninth birthday party last month, but one person wasn’t there: the birthday girl herself.

Nearly six months after a roaring flood killed girls and counselors at Texas’ Camp Mystic it will begin enrolling new campers in January.

Eight families whose children died in the July 4 Central Texas flood are suing Camp Mystic, accusing the camp of gross negligence.

Camp Mystic plans to reopen next summer near the site where 27 girls and counselors died in a July flood.

The Comfort Cub provides weighted, therapeutic teddy bears to people in crisis. Founder Marcella Johnson said these bears are more than just a toy.

Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, has published an analysis showing disasters caused more than $93 billion in damage across the U.S. in the first six months of 2025, and nearly 25% of that damage was uninsured. Meteorologist Chase Cain breaks down how climate change is amplifying disasters.

Officials in Ingram, Texas, which was hit hard by the July 4 floods, have urgent questions for their county’s emergency management coordinator.

Kerr County officials confirmed there have been 107 deaths. Search efforts continue in the Guadalupe River watershed.

“I could hear her little voice as she wrote it.”

As the death toll continues to rise after the Fourth of July weekend flood in Central Texas, one man is making personalized caskets for those killed.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.

Donald Trump expressed support for flood alarms in Texas and said he thinks “everyone’s doing a great job” responding to the state’s natural disaster.

FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.

As floodwaters rose in Texas, camp counselors hoisted children onto rafters, carried them to dry ground and sang with them to keep them calm.

Texas officials say 161 people are still considered missing after extraordinary floods swamped parts of Kerr County and nearby areas. But the count of the missing may not be very precise.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been exerting more direct control over the agency, which President Donald Trump has talked about “getting rid of.”