A slow-moving thunderstorm triggered almost 500 calls for assistance across the metropolitan region.

Last year, intense rains saw Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre close to full. As Central Australia braces for floods, the salt lake could fill again.

Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as record-breaking heat waves, bushfires, two major droughts and even flash flooding.

Officials in Indonesia have put up a safety barrier near the edges of the sinkhole, warning residents to stay away ...

In a separate incident, on February 6, detectives attended a unit on Focal Way in Bayswater and seized more than 3.9 million ...

Rainfall was below average for most of Australia's south-east, far-west and central regions in the first month of the year.

If we had warning sirens to alert us to social catastrophes — like sirens warn us of approaching floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes — we would have a thousand alarms blaring ...

Love can flourish in unlikely places: run clubs, dating apps or, as it turns out, rescuing horses as deadly floods ravaged ...

Born on September 30, 1966, Angus James Taylor entered federal politics in 2013 as the Member for Hume, a rural New South ...

Some interventions were implemented – 18 people were rescued from the flooded Olifants River by the South African National Defence Force. Others were saved from the northernmost camp in Kruger ...

This article has been updated to include a comment from the city of Boulder and to clarify that a reply brief was due Monday Three south Boulder residents suing the city over a flood mitigation ...

SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Sunday downgraded a flood alert for a suburb of the country's largest city Sydney, after residents were evacuated due to rising waters sparked by ...