The Latest Breaking News from Flood

LOS ANGELES — With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during three years of record drought.

LOS ANGELES — After atmospheric river storms pummeled large swaths of California, triggering massive flooding and prompting widespread evacuation orders from the Central Coast to the southern Sierra, forecasters warned Saturday “we’re not through this just yet.”

Burketown residents are fleeing water-logged homes, while emergency services warn of power cuts and sewage backflows

Residents in state’s rural west are bracing for the peak of record flooding on Sunday

As rain moves south, power is out in parts of Burketown and sewerage systems are compromised. Police will remain in the town to assist residents who chose to stay behind.

A Queensland town faces worst-ever floods, with communities and properties isolated as possible heavy falls raise risk of of flash floods.

FRESNO, Calif. — California’s deadly storm season turned even deadlier Friday as the first of two atmospheric river storms descended on the state, prompting widespread evacuation orders as it flooded creeks and rivers and dropped warm, heavy rain atop the state’s near-record snowpack.

Emergency services in Australia's Queensland state evacuated residents to higher ground on Saturday, as record-breaking floods sparked by heavy rain lashed the region's northwest.

Victoria's outback blooms as floodwater reaches areas where locals have not seen it for decades.