Douglas Shire Council’s Disaster Management Unit team members Shane Brumby and Natascha Schwarzer. Picture: Douglas Shire Council Douglas Shire Council has responded to an urgent call for assistance ...

A series of decisions made by Daniel Spindler and his wife saved them from a once-in-a-generation cyclone after a tree came ...

More than 1,000 have died since Thursday amid fighting between Syrian government forces and supporters of former President Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring organization announced.

A slow-moving tropical storm crossed islands off Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast late Friday, lashing coastal ...

P&O Cruises Australia cancelled the final cruise of the Pacific Encounter due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred. According to a ...

Tropical storm Alfred could cause significant flooding in eastern Australia despite the slowly moving storm no longer being a ...

A former New Orleans Police Department sergeant affectionately known as the “dancing cop” has died after falling ill from ALS ...

One person has died and several were injured as flooding rains lash the Australian east coast even though it avoided its ...

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese warned that there is “worse to come” as ex-cyclone Alfred fierce winds and heavy ...

Ex-tropical cyclone Alfred lingered off the south-east Australian coast on Saturday and forecasters said Brisbane is likely ...

One man died in floodwaters, the authorities said, and over 330,000 customers were without power in South East Queensland.

Millions of people on Australia's eastern coast face destructive winds and heavy rain as the region endures the southernmost ...