Extreme weather
'First taste of winter': Southern parts of NSW get severe weather warning
Heavy rainfall, damaging winds and hail will threaten large parts of the state across Friday night and Saturday morning.
- by Matt Bungard
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USA
Tornado slams Alabama town under virus quarantine
A midday twister pulled the roofs off homes, leaving the area littered with pieces of about 15 houses and trees.
Development
Grantham reborn: Meet the little Queensland town that moved
Twelve people died in Grantham when a three-metre wall of water rushed through in January 2011. The mayor and an American environmental engineer put together a plan to stop it happening again. This is how Grantham was reborn.
- by Tony Moore
Cyclones
Norfolk Island watches for brewing cyclone off Queensland coast
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Andrea Peace said the looming cyclone was expected to become a category 2 system by Sunday.
- by Darren Cartwright
Queensland
More than 200mm falls on far north towns ahead of expected cyclone
Towns in far north Queensland have seen more than 200 millimetres of rain in 24 hours as the system, forecast to form a cyclone by the weekend, moves offshore.
- by Matt Dennien
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Aviation
Five dead after plane crashes into dunes on far north Queensland beach
Five people are confirmed dead after a light plane crashed in wild weather on the Cape York Peninsula, with authorities finding the wreckage on a beach.
- by Matt Dennien and Toby Crockford
Weather
North on alert for looming low after wet start to week for SEQ
The state's far north is on flood watch with a low set to drop up to 300 millimetres of rain as it sweeps across the Cape and develops into a Coral Sea cyclone.
- by Matt Dennien
Drought
SEQ cops all-day drenching while western rivers see highest peaks in 10 years
The state's far north is now bracing for its own drenching, with a low likely to develop into a Coral Sea cyclone by the weekend.
- by Matt Dennien
Victoria
A month of rain falls overnight in Melbourne
BOM Senior Forecaster, Peter Otto explains the extreme rain in Melbourne in the past 12 hours. State Response Controller, Alistair Drayton says that the SES were called to 11 incidences of rescuing people from cars trapped in floodwaters.
Brisbane
Drivers swept off flooded Queensland roads as west cops drenching
The rain, some of which driven by remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Esther, has sparked warnings from authorities, as showers also dampened parts of the south-east.
- by Matt Dennien
USA
Tornadoes leave trail of death and destruction in Tennessee
Tornadoes ripped across the US state, shredding at least 40 buildings, killing at least 25 people and disrupting voting in Democratic primaries.