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Just two days before devastating floods claimed at least 27 lives at Camp Mystic, the Texas Department of State Health ...

"I couldn't fall back asleep because, like, I just had a gut feeling that something bad was about to happen." Lucy Kennedy ...

Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more than 160 people believed to be missing in the flash floods that laid waste to ...

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

The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green, Travis and Williamson Counties looking for family ...

As calls for accountability continue surrounding the deadly flood in Kerr County, state inspection reports show a recent history of safety compliance at a girls’ summer camp that has become the ...

Would you feel comfortable sending your kids to camp this summer? How should camps prepare for such unexpected events? Let us ...

The Supreme Court has refused to allow Florida to enforce an immigration law making it a crime for people who are living in the U.S. illegally to enter the state.

A Texas summer camp had a state-mandated emergency plan in place before devastating flash floods took the lives of dozens of ...

In the latest edition of Education Connection, Cassie Montgomery, Director of Development at Ascension Academy, sat down with ...