The number of people reported missing in Kerr County, Texas, as a result of last week’s flash floods continues to soar. Authorities say search teams combing through the debris and destruction there are looking for more than 160 people who disappeared in the raging waters.

Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods as a painstaking search for victims continues along the Guadal...

A flood relief fund established to support Kerr County residents has already raised more than $30m since its launch on the morning of 4 July, according to the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill C...

“Dozens and dozens of precious children taken from us. It’s terrible,” he said during a news conference at the roundtable.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Texas to survey the damage from last week’s devastating floods.

The president is expected to do an aerial tour of some of the hard-hit areas.