Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...

Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...

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

Kerr County officials rejected federal aid in 2021 that could have funded flood sirens, citing political objections.

Three hours and 21 minutes. That’s how much time passed from when the National Weather Service sent out its first flash flood warning for part of Kerr County to when the first flooding reports came ...

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 ...

While Kerr County officials say they didn’t know how bad the July 4 flooding would be, it warned residents nearly eight years ago to “be flood aware” about the ongoing potential ...

Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece together the timeframe local officials have yet to provide amid public ...

Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what ...

Kerr County officials have for years talked about the need for a more robust flash-flood warning system, including sirens that would reach people in places with no cell service. But in the absence of ...

While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide ...

Search and rescue teams continue their efforts in Kerr County following catastrophic floods.