As East Texas experiences dry weather and high winds, Smith County Emergency Services District 2 has deployed additional ...

Newton County's new Emergency Services District heralds a transformative era, drastically reducing response times.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Emergency services leaders from across the State of Texas are in College Station this week to share and learn about best practices. Officials with emergency services ...

(NewsNation) — Gov. Greg Abbott directed state emergency management officials on Thursday to activate response resources as a tropical weather system threatens Southeast and East Texas with heavy rain ...

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill in the regular legislative session that would have improved local governments’ emergency communications infrastructure. The Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Several emergency service districts across Southeast Texas are asking voters to approve keeping a portion of state sales tax revenue for local emergency services, officials said. The ...

Texas lawmakers heard nearly three hours of testimony Wednesday from the state’s emergency management chief about a system reliant on local emergency managers who may not have even received warnings ...

HOUSTON — At the first public hearing to investigate the deadly Hill Country flood Wednesday, the state’s top emergency management official took aim at the lack of standards required to coordinate an ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. As the death toll climbs in Central Texas from catastrophic ...

Just weeks after flash flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, many of the first responders who served on the front lines of the crisis for the City of Kerrville got another gut punch: ...