The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Evacuations are underway in remote towns and outback properties in north-west Qld with flood warnings for rivers across the isolated region.

Emergency services have ramped up evacuation efforts in the Gulf of Carpentaria as "unprecedented" floods threaten to submerge towns.

California is bracing for the arrival of an atmospheric river that forecasters warn will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding even as the state is still digging out from earlier storms

LOS ANGELES — A powerful storm barreling toward California from the tropical Pacific threatens to trigger widespread river flooding throughout the state as warm rain melts a record accumulation of snowpack and sends runoff surging down mountains and into streams and reservoirs.

Widespread rainfall expected in state’s south-east this weekend but nowhere near the 500mm recorded in the north-west

The largest and longest flood response operation on record from the New South Wales State Emergency Service has today come to a welcome end.

Emergency situations are unfolding as never-before-seen floods inundate north-west Queensland and rivers rise to record levels.

The NSW SES has lifted its final flood warning, ending the longest flooding operation in the organisation's history.

It was a mistake to not order the evacuation of a Tasmanian town in the lead-up to deadly flooding, an inquest has been told.