The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Forbes endured weeks of destructive flooding in 2022. Its mayor is angry the SES chose to base itself in another town, deeming it "something you'd do in America, not in Australia".

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — President Joe Biden arrived in California on Thursday and joined Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on a helicopter tour of areas along the Central Coast battered by winter storms that caused major flooding and landslides across the state.

The extreme flooding and mudslides across California in recent weeks took many drivers by surprise. Sinkholes swallowed cars, highways became fast-moving rivers of water, entire neighborhoods were evacuated. At least 20 people died in the storms, several of them after becoming trapped in cars in rushing water.

They say they had requested an emergency exit in the fence before as it blocks their only exit route

Dozens of families in Western Australia's Kimberley region are homeless after once-in-a-century floods.

Automatic warning system activated to issue flood alerts during industrial action by staff on Wednesday

Dozens of families have been evacuated from their homes and a school forced to close after heavy rain caused a reservoir to overflow in Jersey, with children now urged to avoid the floodwater

An extra $70million is now available to help repair community infrastructure damaged by the floods in February and June last year.

The joint state and federal funding pool will be used to fix public facilities that still haven't been repaired after last year's floods.