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On this week's TribCast, Eleanor Klibanoff and Matthew Watkins are joined by Alejandra Martinez and Carlos Nogueras to take a closer look at major changes coming to Texas’ water and electrical systems. bit.ly/4khTSjA

Longtime Houston dweller here. The Houston NWS office is not one where you want to see vacancies. Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season texastribune.org/2025/06/09/tex… via Texas Tribune

Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season. Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff. bit.ly/4mTsvOs

A $20 billion effort to avoid calamity: Here’s what Texas lawmakers did to save the state’s water supply -- Jayme Lozano Carver and Alejandra Martinez Texas Tribune texastribune.org/2025/06/12/wat…

Lawmakers dedicated $7.5 million for groundwater data and research, approved a bill that targets water loss and enhances conservation, and prohibited HOAs from penalizing Texans for not watering their grass during a drought. #txlege For Texas Tribune texastribune.org/2025/06/12/wat…

Houston’s NWS office has lost its head meteorologist and has 11 vacancies. The shortages stem from federal cuts that slashed roughly 10% of NOAA’s staff. Here's what these vaccines mean for Texans as they brace for a busy hurricane season. Texas Tribune texastribune.org/2025/06/09/tex…

After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged texastribune.org/2025/06/16/tex…

6 months ago, we reported that the $3B Texas border wall was dozens of fragmented sections mostly in rural areas. We found the state was also struggling with land acquisition. This month, lawmakers quietly stopped funding the wall. It's 8% complete. texastribune.org/2025/06/17/tex…

My 2002 article in Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine explains why the #Guadalupe & other #Texas Hill Country #rivers experience catastrophic #flooding. edwardsaquifer.net/pdf/flood.pdf #txwx #TexasFlood #TexasFlooding #guadaluperiver

Weather balloons are critical information, and this is why so many of us continue to scream from the rooftops about cutting data and research from NOAA.

Update to the article worth noting: the National Weather Service employees union says the weather forecasting offices in both San Antonio and San Angelo were adequately staffed and resourced to issue “timely forecasts and warnings leading up to the storm.”

If you're looking to help those impacted by the Hill County flooding, we've written up a guide on how to help and get help. Texas Tribune texastribune.org/2025/07/05/tex…

Michael McCown, father of Linnie, went to Camp Mystic to walk and search. He needed to find his daughter. I respectfully share this short dispatch about a grieving father and am so grateful to him for letting me in. washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…

UPDATE: The official death toll jumped to 43 following the catastrophic floods that hit the Texas Hill Country as of Saturday evening, local officials announced during a news conference. bit.ly/402Hax6

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has established the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund to support local response, relief, and recovery efforts following the devastating July 4th flood.   You can access the Fund here: tinyurl.com/KerrFloodRelief

People nationally wonder why Texans are obsessed with H-E-B. It’s because they are the physical manifestation of the motto of Texas: Friendship. They leap into action, no questions asked to help. If you want to know what good corporate culture looks like, this is it.

I’m in Kerrville today, covering fallout from the devastating floods Texas Tribune. Death toll is up to 59, with 11 girls still missing from Camp Mystic. The whole area looks sodden and waterlogged, but church parking lots are full. Many gathering/distributing donations.

After Texas failed to pass a bill to improve flood warning systems, a Kerr County lawmaker says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which aimed to establish a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill that could have helped fund alarm systems for flood warnings in local areas earlier this year. Rep. Wes Virdell, who represents Texas Hill Country, says he would have voted differently (He voted no). The bill died. texastribune.org/2025/07/06/tex…

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year texastribune.org/2025/07/06/tex… via Texas Tribune