The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Multiple flood warnings and watches have been issued for northern parts of the NT following heavy rainfall overnight, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting more to come.

A buyback scheme that was supposed to move NSW Northern Rivers residents out of extreme flood danger has barely begun a year after the floods, with the first offers made only in the past few days.

The number of people missing in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay following Cyclone Gabrielle is now in single figures, search and rescue officials said on Thursday, 10 days after the worst storm to hit the country in decades.

Nearly two months after the flood peak passed, the South Australian River Murray town of Paisley is still in a pool of water — and residents are wondering why authorities did not do more to help them in the first place.

In New Zealand, residents want to rebuild their cyclone-ravaged homes — but a hard conversation is on the horizon.

With a recent run of natural disasters, could a standalone reconstruction agency help NZ recovery and response efforts?

A sinkhole has appeared in Wallsend after rain caused the collapse of a front yard amid a huge deluge across the Hunter.

Many people in the flood-devastated NSW Northern Rivers still don't have a home, the premier has conceded as a house buyback scheme makes its first offer.

Our cities have altered their original landscapes so greatly that their natural systems are profoundly compromised. These systems – such as swamps, rivers, creeks, aquifers and bushland corridors – need more space to function properly. Sometimes they assert their underlying presence through land subsidence, floods and fires. As Margaret Cook…