The Latest Breaking News on Floods

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Officials and airline patrons of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, closed after being inundated by record rains, anxiously awaited a newly scheduled reopening on Friday.

Drivers are being urged to use caution when navigating the streets of Fort Lauderdale after days of unrelenting rain left roads underwater and forced the closure of one of South Florida’s largest airports

"This is a life threatening situation," the National Weather Service in Miami warned.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Drivers were stuck in cars, travelers were stranded at the airport, streets were impassable, school and court were canceled and a man was spotted swimming through a downtown Fort Lauderdale street as South Florida started to emerge from what one city is calling a 50-year rain…

South Florida is keeping a wary eye on a forecast that calls for rain a day after nearly a foot fell in a matter of hours

Auckland's extreme summer of weather has pushed out the plan to allow multi-storey housing metro-wide, and could inspire new approaches to handling stormwater.

A stormy period forecast for the southeast United States began on Wednesday, as a flash flooding emergency hit South Florida

Nearly a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours in Fort Lauderdale – causing widespread flooding, the closure of the city’s airport and the suspension of high-speed commuter rail service for the Broward County region

Disaster insurance is likely to become less accessible in the future. One economist says the solution could be government intervention.