The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Volunteering SA is urging people to register to help over the coming months with the clean-up after the Murray River floods.

The former NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner is axed by the government after heavy criticism of Resilience NSW's response to the flood emergency earlier this year.

Pakistan has signed a $475 million loan agreement for flood relief with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the country's economic affairs minister said on Thursday, taking the total for the year to $2.7 billion with the agency.

Palmwoods residents have reacted with shock and anger over the clearing of a large parcel of land close to the town's centre, on a site they say has flooded three times this year.

As extreme weather increases the threat to homes, insurance companies are hiking premiums to unaffordable levels or simply refusing to provide cover at all.

Local leaders condemn ‘insensitive cruelty’ as residents remain shaken after weather event likened to an inland tsunami

Frances Spanner and Tony King are forking out for the second year in a row to stay in alternative accommodation over the festive period after heavy rain destroyed their flat in Central Parade, Herne Bay, Kent

Australia is a country of droughts and flooding rains — and that contrast is nowhere more starkly illustrated at the moment than SA's Riverland, where water is seeping into desiccated landscapes for the first time in decades.

Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and drowning take place, it may seem inappropriate to speak of the scarcity and commodity of water. For example,…