The Latest Breaking News from Flood

We’ve known about flood risk to the region for a long time. Yet successive state governments have failed to properly mitigate its impact.

This is the fourth flood emergency to hit the city in 16 months

Residents asked to tweet about floods in their neighbourhoods in order to make real-time geographically specific alerts.

Residents along Wollombi Brook have been told to move to higher ground as the State Emergency Service issued an evacuation order.

Shoalhaven Council says it will be several weeks before dozens of Kangaroo Valley residents can leave their home by car after floodwaters washed away their only access road.

As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team.

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State…

Flood crisis worsens in Australia’s largest city, parts of which have seen 3 rounds of flooding in a year and a half.

Official reports describe leaks of virus-laden fluids, a flood and a researcher bitten by an infected ferret