The Latest Breaking News on Floods

An inquest into deadly flooding in Tasmania has been told there was a high level of turmoil and finger pointing within the state emergency service.

LOS ANGELES — With back-to-back storms to hit California in the coming days, state officials are scrambling to make strategic releases from key reservoirs in hopes of preventing a repeat of the deadly flooding that killed nearly two dozen people in January.

An inquest into the death of a woman who died in floodwaters in Tasmania's north-west seven years ago has heard the State Emergency Service's (SES) regional manager for the north-west ignored his colleagues' calls to evacuate the town.

Evacuations will start in remote towns and outback properties in northwest Queensland with flood warnings for a number of rivers in the isolated region.

California is bracing for the arrival of an atmospheric river that forecasters warn will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding even as the state is still digging out from earlier storms

LOS ANGELES — A powerful storm barreling toward California from the tropical Pacific threatens to trigger widespread river flooding throughout the state as warm rain melts a record accumulation of snowpack and sends runoff surging down mountains and into streams and reservoirs.

Widespread rainfall expected in state’s south-east this weekend but nowhere near the 500mm recorded in the north-west

The largest and longest flood response operation on record from the New South Wales State Emergency Service has today come to a welcome end.

Emergency situations are unfolding as never-before-seen floods inundate north-west Queensland and rivers rise to record levels.