Gov. Greg Abbott wrote a letter Wednesday morning instructing flags on state property to immediately be lowered statewide.

Greg Abbott called the floods a "devastating and heartbreaking loss" and ordered all Texas flags to be lowered to half-staff statewide. Flags wil ...

Flags are half-staff across Texas today, as Gov. Greg Abbott ordered them lowered to honor the victims of the deadly Texas ...

Texas Flags to be lowered to half-staff this week in honor of lives lost in Kerrville flooding, Gov. Greg Abbot orders.

Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff starting Thursday to honor those who ...

In the aftermath of the 2025 Texas floods, a look back at some of the most destructive and defining flood events in the state ...

The Texas flag has the same colors of the U.S. flag. For the Lone Star State, the blue stripe represents loyalty, white stripe for purity and red stripe for bravery.

FIRST TEXAS LONE STAR FLAG was the “Long Flag” of independence. There is no record who designed the flag but Dr. James Long in 1819, while Texas was still a province of New Spain, flew this flag.

Civil War re-enactor Randy Whitaker from Hood's Texas Brigade displays the Texas flag during a three-day Battle of Gettysburg re-enactment on June 29, 2013 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

A solid purple flag flies alongside the U.S. and Texas flags outside of LaPoynor School, part of LaPoynor ISD, in LaRue on Jan. 18, 2024. Credit: Leslie Nemec for The Texas Tribune ...

Governor Abbott is also encouraging all residents, businesses, and other entities to fly their flags at half-staff as a mark ...