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Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
After flash floods swept through central Texas in July 2025, people online searched for reasons why the disaster was so ...
In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to ...
Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the night and wake up ...
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the ...
The Texas Legislature is scheduled to convene Monday for a special session, which now includes flood-related issues.
Texas legislators on Wednesday lambasted a local river authority for a decision last year not to move ahead with pursuing a ...
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump administration, that kind of funding is drying up.
In 2016, Kerr County commissioners already knew they were getting outpaced by neighboring, rapidly growing counties on installing better flood warning systems and were looking for ways to pull ahead.
In 2016, Kerr County officials noticed that counties nearby were putting in flood warning systems, designed to save lives. Thirteen people had died in extreme flooding in Wimberley County in 2015 ...
In 2016, Kerr County commissioners already knew they were getting outpaced by neighboring, rapidly growing counties on installing better flood warning systems and were looking for ways to pull ahead.