Kerrville

When the July 4 flood tore through the upper Guadalupe River, ripping apart neighborhoods and destroying homes, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country stepped up by helping families find shelter and new homes. How will Kerrville celebrate the Fourth of July on what will be the nation's 250th birthday — while also commemorating the lives lost one year earlier?

This is the 54th year of the Kerrville Folk Festival. TPR's Jack Morgan brings us the sights and sounds and introduces us to several "Kerrheads."

The Kerrville Folk Festival is 54 years old this month and still going strong.

The plan builds upon an existing discharge line currently being used for irrigation.

After catastrophic flooding claimed 117 lives and reshaped the Guadalupe River, volunteers and biologists are planting thousands of native cuttings along its banks, marking a turning point in the long work of restoration.

The Gary Sinise Foundation won approval for the concert at Monday's Kerr County commissioners meeting.

Kerrville Renaissance Festival welcomes all to enjoy knights, royalty and revelry right in the Texas Hill Country for three enchanted weekends: January 17–18, January 24–25, and January 31–February 1, 2026.

Three months after floods hit central Texas, senior editor at Texas Monthly Aaron Parsley shares his experience when he and his family were swept away by rushing water and how they're moving forward.

A disaster tax rate of $.05711 per $100 valuation will go into effect for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The move comes less than three months following 4th of July flooding.

The July 4th floodwaters that surged along the upper Guadalupe River left families grieving and a community devastated. Recovery is ongoing, but over the weekend, the Friday night lights of high school football gave Kerrville residents a brief reprieve and a chance to gather and cheer for something familiar and hopeful.