The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Houses may have to be removed, waterways opened up and new rules passed as part of an ambitious $1 billion plan to sort Auckland's flood-prone neighbourhoods within six years

The risk of catastrophic flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin has diminished as cool temperatures have predominated this spring, flattening the melt curve of the Sierra’s epic snowpack, state officials said Monday.

The BBMP in its report on Sunday’s tragedy blamed gusty winds that resulted in falling of dry leaves and branches, and the volume of rainfall for the flooding of the K.R. Circle underpass

Heavy rain that brought parts of Bengaluru to its knees on Sunday has yet again exposed the unpreparedness of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara

Events of the past year have convinced more Florida homeowners of the need to carry flood insurance.

‘Huge land scam involved in cancelling GO 111’

BENGALURU: Police have registered a case against the engineers of the Bengaluru civic agency and the car driver who took the vehicle into the flooded underpass in the city leading to the death of a 22-year-old IT staffer and endangering the lives of five other family members of the victim,…

More than 90 percent of deaths caused by disasters worldwide happen in developing countries, UN report finds.

Mirella Berardinelli, 56, lost everything including her home, her shop and her pets in the devastating floods that hit north-eastern Italy last week and forced 36,000 people to leave their homes