When disaster strikes, Polk County Judge Sydney Murphy takes command of her county’s emergency communication channels, including a text service and Facebook page.

More than 1 million Texans still don’t have electricity. For those hardest hit by Beryl, the wait will stretch into next week.

Power companies and Texas officials say restoration efforts could take days. Experts say Texans without electricity are facing a dangerous situation.

The plans, which are required by the federal government to access certain grants after a natural disaster, are laborious to assemble — especially for rural counties.

Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas are starting to recede, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall.

Dozens of evacuees, including the elderly and barefoot children, crowded in an old school building Friday, praying for clear skies on Monday.

Since Sunday, multiple rounds of rainfall have soaked the region, causing rivers and creeks to swell and rise out of their banks.

Thousands of residents have either evacuated or are now under shelter orders.

Parts of Harris County, including The Woodlands, were under flood warnings Thursday.

East Texas has been hit by several severe rainstorms this spring, and several counties have declared disasters.

Three New York City boroughs have lost almost 80,000 residents from people moving away last year.

According to the Department of Public Safety, 42-year-old Steven McDougal is a person of interest in the disappearance of Audrii Cunningham.

An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing child who police believe is in “grave or immediate danger.”

Thompson Williams is remembered as a spiritual leader and educator who “liked seeing what the possibilities were.”

There's a low-tech remedy for the nitrate pollution affecting waterways in Iowa and elsewhere in the United States.

Two Iowa teenagers charged in a fatal shooting at a Des Moines school will be tried separately so one of the teens can testify in defense of the other.

An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing child who police believe is in “grave or immediate danger.”

A Texas man was arrested over the weekend after abandoning a 9-month-old baby with a broken leg inside a shed and then stealing a truck, according to media reports.

A pilot was injured after they crashed their plane into Lake Livingston in Southeast Texas on Tuesday afternoon.

A massive human trafficking bust in Florida led to the arrests of more than 100 people, including four Disney employees, according to reports.

The all-new Peppa Pig Theme Park will open as a certified autism center, leaders announced Tuesday at the IAAPA Expo at the Orange County Convention Center.

A Florida sheriff says a man wearing full body armor fatally shot four people, including a mother and the 3-month-old baby she was cradling, and engaged in a massive gunfight with police and deputies before getting wounded and surrendering.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a natural gas line explosion that happened near the Trinity River, our sister station KPRC reports. Polk County officials said in a Facebook post that there were issues with the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the Trinity River early Saturday, but as of around 9 a.m., everything was contained. San Jacinto County has reported problems with a Kinder Morgan pipeline in the Trinity River. Kinder Morgan is at the... Posted by Polk County Emergency Management, Texas on Sunday, October 4, 2020Residents in the area were evacuated during the incident, but they have since returned to their homes. Emergency crews are still asking residents to stay out of the affected area.