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.
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.
A sheriff, a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a probate judge sat at the same witness table Tuesday and told the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services the same thing: county jails have become the state's default mental hospital, and the counties are paying for it.
A San Antonio ordinance requiring fraud warning signs at every cryptocurrency kiosk in the city took effect July 1 after police linked the machines to about $39 million in reported scam losses since January 2024.
The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee will meet Tuesday in Austin to hear invited testimony on THC's links to psychotic disorders, mental health emergency detentions and rising health care costs.
Texas Game Wardens resumed search efforts at Benbrook Lake in Tarrant County on June 29 for a man who went missing in the water two days earlier, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said in an official statement.
Texans lost more money to cryptocurrency-kiosk scams in 2025 than residents of any other state.
For most of a seven-and-a-half-hour hearing Wednesday, witness after witness told the House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs the same thing: Texas keeps paying to jail people whose real problem is untreated mental illness, addiction or homelessness, and the bill keeps coming back.