Coverage of Texas flood events, emergency response, infrastructure, and the communities affected by rising waters.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has released new aerial footage of evacuations, flooding and damage to state parks recorded by Texas Game Warden unmanned aircraft systems pilots, the agency said in a July 19 media advisory.
Texas Game Wardens have completed 153 rescues and 92 evacuations during the state's ongoing flood response, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reported in a July 18 media advisory.
Texas Game Wardens flew four missions on the morning of July 17 to deliver food and supplies to camps in the Kerr County area that remained cut off by high water, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said in a July 17 media advisory.
LiftFund, a San Antonio-based nonprofit small business lender, launched the 2026 Texas Hill Country Flood Relief Program on July 17, offering grants of up to $10,000 to small businesses and nonprofit organizations damaged by the July 2026 flooding across the region.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller declared an Agricultural Emergency on July 16 in response to catastrophic flooding across Central and South Texas, activating Texas Department of Agriculture relief resources for farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses recovering from widespread flood damage.
Two Texas Department of Transportation employees rescued a man stranded in a flooded creek in Presidio County using a front-end loader, the agency said in a July 9 news story.
A year and four days after the Hill Country floods killed dozens of campers and counselors, the state officials who now license Texas youth camps told senators Wednesday that the new safety law has teeth.
Texas is learning to adjust quickly to rapid population growth and increasingly frequent extreme weather.
Sen. Lois Kolkhorst's eight-member committee will take invited and public testimony on foreign exploitation of Texas surrogacy, and on how the state is carrying out new laws on child-abuse records, youth-camp safety and assisted-living emergencies.
Texas Senate's General Investigating Committee on the July 2025 Flooding Events will meet concurrently with its House counterpart to consider a report on last summer's deadly Hill Country floods — no public testimony, and the panel may go behind closed doors.