The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Maitland mayor Philip Penfold says NSW Labor's plan to ditch the government's road reclassification program, which would see the state take back responsibility of local roads, in favour of a $670 million emergency road repair fund will cripple local councils in the long run.

As rising floodwaters surrounded their vehicle on a remote road in the Northern Territory earlier this week, Tess Foxworthy pulled out her phone to capture the predicament she and her colleague were in.

Coal mining provided jobs for decades but has left the land vulnerable to fatal floods

An inquest into the death of a 75-year-old Tasmanian woman who drowned in her Latrobe home in 2016 has heard family members made desperate calls to the SES and police prior to her death.

Temporary roadworks on the M1 at the Gold Coast in February and March of 2022 may have caused "additional flooding above the floorboards" in up to 25 homes, according to a hydrology report released by the state government.

Two people have drowned in recent weeks while trying to swim across the Fitzroy River after once-in-a-century floods in Western Australia's north.

Rescuers in boats have retrieved families trapped on rooftops and hauled others to safety as villages in parts of Malaysia were submerged in floodwaters

The federal government has approved a request for ADF assistance to evacuate about 700 people from a handful of remote communities south of Darwin that have been inundated by major flooding.

A number of remote communities in the Northern Territory are bracing for more intense rainfall as a tropical low makes its way across the Top End.