The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Main roads were also blocked by the floods, causing long traffic queues on highways.

A state of emergency is declared after torrential rain led to widespread flooding and evacuations in New Zealand's largest city, causing chaos at the city's major airport.

Taryn Brumfitt, whose struggle to accept her body inspired millions of people worldwide, is the 2023 Australian of the Year.

Emergency services are currently on the scene of burst water main in Milngavie that has left thousands of people without water and caused severe flooding.

LOS ANGELES — Now that the shock of a series of January storms has worn off, Los Angeles County officials face a herculean chore: Five reservoirs along south-facing San Gabriel Mountain slopes are filled with so much debris and soupy mud that they pose a flood risk to the communities…

Concreting over London will cause further flooding of the Tube, the chief executive of the Environment Agency warned on Tuesday.

Officials are hopeful empty shelves in the flood-ravaged West Australian town of Derby will soon be filled as the clean-up continues.

Authorities are calling for calm as residents protest against food shortages and liquor bans in the wake of the catastrophic Kimberley floods. Meanwhile more rain is on its way.

Ten years after ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald battered the Queensland coast and prompted what was then Australia's biggest ever peacetime evacuation, calls for long-awaited flood mitigation plans have been renewed.