When the July 4 flood tore through the upper Guadalupe River, ripping apart neighborhoods and destroying homes, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country stepped up by helping families find shelter and new homes. How will Kerrville celebrate the Fourth of July on what will be the nation's 250th birthday — while also commemorating the lives lost one year earlier?
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July 4 marks one year since catastrophic flooding struck two neighboring parts of the Texas Hill Country. Along the Upper Guadalupe River, where at least 130 people died, a major recovery effort followed. But along nearby Sandy Creek, where nine people were killed, survivors say the response has been far more limited. Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports on two disasters caused by the same storm — and two very different paths to recovery.
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On July 4, it will be one year since the flash flood disaster that took the lives of 119 people along the upper Guadalupe River in one of the worst calamities in Texas history. How is the region recovering? What lessons have been learned? And what's being done to prevent this from happening again?
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The National Weather Service has issued heat warnings and watches for much of the Midwest and East heading into the holiday weekend. In many places, the temperatures could shatter records.
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SAWS hopes the technology will help identify lead and galvanized steel pipes without digging up homeowners' yards.
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Every year we hear about Saharan dust reaching Texas, but how does it really affect Texans?
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Dangerous heat is expected across large swaths of the U.S. this week, according to the National Weather Service.
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The week ahead includes Saharan dust, city office closures, and fireworks fun.
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The Texas Newsroom and FRONTLINE (PBS) are collaborating on a new five-part podcast series, After the Flood, an intimate and deeply reported look at the catastrophic Central Texas flooding that killed more than 130 people over the Fourth of July weekend in 2025.
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Data centers require significant amounts of water. But state lawmakers say they do not have reliable information about how much water the industry is consuming — and how that will impact the state’s water-scarce future.
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A mystery lizard hints at progress for the San Antonio Zoo’s “lizard factory,” where researchers rebuild the Texas horned lizard population.