The Latest Breaking News on Floods

A roadway chasm that reached a depth of nine metres took more than a bit of hot mix to patch up in western NSW.

CORCORAN, Calif. — Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. Now, the road has disappeared under muddy water, its path marked by sodden telephone poles that protrude from the swelling lake. Water laps just below the windows of a lone farmhouse that sits alongside the submerged route.

A longer, sturdier bridge will be built over WA's Fitzroy River after unprecedented flooding washed away the old one in January, cutting a key transport route.

With water gushing through California’s rivers, some farmers have started devoting a portion of their land to capture these flows and let them seep into the ground