City officials in Wharton kicked their emergency efforts into high gear Thursday, issuing a mandatory evacuation order as water from recent heavy rains drained toward the Colorado River and began ...

WHARTON, Texas – A mandatory evacuation is underway on Monday in parts of Wharton due to rising water on the Colorado River. The evacuation has been issued for the area bounded on the west by ...

WHARTON – The Colorado River is rising and threatening hundreds ... Marks left her home on Ford Street then as she's doing now—following the city's request, praying she comes back to a dry ...

The mayor of Wharton has called for the mandatory evacuation of residents living west of the Colorado River. Wharton is located ... Montalvo said the orders were now mandatory.

The Colorado River is expected to go out of its banks, flooding nearby homes. Many residents have already chosen to pack up and get out before the next round of storms Yahoo Sports ...

About 3 p.m. Saturday, Texas State Troopers finally reopened Wharton’s business loop, leading through the nearly empty downtown to the still-closed Colorado River bridge. U.S. 59 also reopened ...

WHARTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK ... said a hotel in the city is now taking on water as the Colorado River swells. The river is now 11 feet over its banks, a major flooding event, according to ...

WHARTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Road to Recovery brought ... four feet of floodwater isn't going to end that run. When the Colorado River crested, Gonzalez didn't think, he just acted.

The Business 59 bridge over the Colorado River ... future is now uncertain. Demolition is one option, but some say it should be saved. It's the road which those who first settled in Wharton ...

The Arbuckle Reservoir, scheduled to come online in 2019, will store water for agricultural use in Wharton and ... manages water in the Colorado River. That year, the Texas Commission on ...

A Colorado River reservoir project in Wharton County could cost as much as $30 million more than previously thought, an official with the Lower Colorado River Authority said Tuesday. The reservoir ...