The Hays County Office of Emergency Services and numerous public safety-minded partners invited residents to learn more about all aspects of personal safety during September, which has been proclaimed by the Hays County Commissioners Court as Emergency Preparedness Month. Multiple agencies participa...

After almost three years, Hays County has finally received federal funding for disaster recovery from a pair of devastating flood events in 2015. The county was given approximately $11.6 million for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery Funds. The U.S. Department of Housing and ...

By Paige Lambert Communities across Central Texas continue to recover after the Oct. 30 rain event brought a second wave of devastating floods.  In the center of it, in a little yellow building in San Marcos, sits the control center of the Blanco River Regional Recovery Team (BR3). The BR3 is a nonp...