A bus driver describes the experience of watching families be reunited while also having to answer questions from families ...

Camp Mystic officials said 27 girls and counselors were killed in the flooding. Some of the victims were as young as 8 years old. At least 30 of the 87 dead across Kerr County are children ...

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Search efforts along the Guadalupe River in Texas, combined with online groups, are helping to reunite items with survivors ...

Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters there.

“Mystic made me who I am,” said Lauren McGrew -Hitzhusen, a former camper and counselor. “I really love the camp. It’s my home away from home,” shared Madeline Vacher, another camper.

Two days before deadly Central Texas floods killed at least 27 people at Camp Mystic, a state inspector certified that it had an emergency plan in place and that its cabins and other buildings ...

Seven of the families who lost children at Camp Mystic are from Dallas. Best friends Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 , recently completed the second grade at Bradfield Elementary School in ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain.

It was 1932, just six years after Camp Mystic opened, when an early July rain began falling on the Texas Hill Country around the Guadalupe River. At first, it was a “lovely, gentle rain,” one ...