The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Texans across the state are affected by declining water supplies, water infrastructure disruptions and flooding in their communities.

When a major flood warning was issued for Huonville on Wednesday night, authorities feared a repeat of the devastating floods that hit the town in 2016. But by daybreak, the outlook had improved dramatically. So why was the modelling so different to the outcome?

The population of flood-affected Pigeon Hole remains in limbo, living out of temporary accommodation on a school oval where a pop-up school, food hall and recreational activities are the centre of everyday life.

Backlogs of months and even years have emerged thanks to issues including poor funding, low pay, a flood of requests from attorneys and families and the Covid pandemic. Josh Marcus reports

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a rural Nevada town's unusual bid to halt government repairs to an aging irrigation canal that burst and flooded more than 500 homes in 2008

Gamblers are flooding the Las Vegas Strip, allowing casinos to weed out the less desirable in a bid to bolster revenue per capita.

The commission's report says community wellbeing and being unable to get insurance spurred its decision to relocate three Catholic schools.

Two months after Murray floodwaters receded along the river's South Australian reaches, nature is thriving in their wake — and that's music to the ears of conservationists in the region.

New Zealand’s 2016 Kaikōura earthquake stopped the Waiau Toa – also known as the Clarence River – in its course. Within hours, the river flooded outside its channel and changed course. In the seven years since the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, the river has completely abandoned the path it used to…