County Officials in Texas Race to Build $5M Warning System Before Next Flood Season December 19, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune With the next Texas flood season just months away, Kerr County officials say they’re in a race to build a...
Federal Funding Shortage Delays Progress on ‘Ike Dike’ Project in Texas Gulf Coast December 8, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay —...
Camp Mystic Parents Pushed for Camp Safety Laws But Their Pain Remains September 16, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Matthew Childress arrived at Matt’s El Rancho, an Austin restaurant, on Sept. 4 with mixed feelings of anticipation and grief....
Texas Lawmakers Advance Flood Bills With Grieving Parents in Attendance August 22, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130...
Texas House Members Discuss Flood-Related Bills Despite Standstill August 6, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Texas House members on a special committee for disaster preparedness met Tuesday to discuss for the first time specific bills...
Kerrville Officials’ Messages Show Lack of Information About Coming Floods August 1, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming” was first published by The...
Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told July 24, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, Hayden Betts, The Texas Tribune and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings....
Texas Public Utility Commission Reports on CenterPoint Energy’s Beryl Response November 26, 2024 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune When Hurricane Beryl swept through southeast Texas on July 8, its damaging 80-mile-per-hour winds took down thousands of trees and...
Oil and Gas Power Lines Suspected of Causing Texas Panhandle Wildfires August 1, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch...
Why Texas Mass Power Outages Continue to Happen July 19, 2024 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune It’s become a familiar cycle: A powerful storm sweeps through a swath of Texas and takes the electric system down...