The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State…

Flood crisis worsens in Australia’s largest city, parts of which have seen 3 rounds of flooding in a year and a half.

Official reports describe leaks of virus-laden fluids, a flood and a researcher bitten by an infected ferret

The government deployed NDRF, Army and Air Force, besides various State organisations, which required an uninterrupted communication network for relief and rescue operations.

Soaring vegetable prices could be here to stay for some time, with the New South Wales flood crisis just the latest in a round of hits driving grocery bills sky-high.

Jury still out on role played by global heating, but hotter ocean temperatures off Australia could have fuelled the NSW storms

For the fourth time in 18 months, floodwaters have inundated homes and businesses in Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Recent torrential rain is obviously the immediate cause. But poor decisions by successive New South Wales governments have exacerbated the damage.

Parts of New South Wales have had more than 700mm of rain since the floods hit, with record July rainfall in a matter of days

More than 100 homes on the New South Wales South Coast remain without power after the region was lashed by wild winds and heavy rains again overnight, but authorities say conditions are set to ease.

Authorities say Traralgon residents did not get told to evacuate until it was too late, after the release of a report which found problems delivering localised flood warnings.

The Federal Government has announced disaster relief payments for affected residents in NSW as flooding shows no signs of easing.