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In the wake of fatal flash flooding that ripped through the Texas Hill Country over Fourth of July weekend, first responders from Mexico are answering the Lone Star State's call for aid.

The Boys & Girls Club in Sallisaw, Oklahoma - near the Arkansas border - was forced to evacuate as heavy rain fell and flooded the River Valley.

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel exteme downpours like those ...

Before 2021, the typically temperate Pacific Northwest and western Canada seemed highly unlikely to get a killer heat wave, ...

Five campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic remain unaccounted for as local officials face mounting questions over who ...

In Central Texas, the search for over 170 missing people persists as rescue teams intensify efforts following devastating ...

Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more ...

Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done ...

We continue to follow the devastation from flash flooding in Texas, where more than 100 people have died and more than 150 ...

The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more than 100 lives over the July Fourth weekend in the United States ...