April 2024
Floods prompt calls to revive dam wall plan
Residents in the Hawkesbury region experiencing their fifth major flood in two years are urging the government to reconsider a plan to raise Warragamba Dam.
- Samantha Hutchinson
June 2023
Drought? Bushfires? Blackouts? July will tell on El Niño
“We’re leading into this event with record high ocean temperatures and that is largely taking a bit of a step into the unknown”, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
- Ben Potter
August 2022
Resilience NSW on the chopping block over damning flood report
The findings have recommended the government consider restructuring the NSW emergency services and potentially scrapping the $775 million Resilience NSW.
- Samantha Hutchinson
NSW asks feds to help cover $3b Northern Rivers recovery bill
The major flood recovery program could mirror Queensland’s Grantham land swap program, in which 110 residents moved to new homes on higher ground.
- Samantha Hutchinson
July 2022
Cargo ship stranded at sea in wild Sydney weather
By Monday evening, three tug boats were midway through an effort to drag the vessel 12 nautical miles offshore where the engine repairs could begin.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Thousands evacuated as ‘life-threatening’ weather event escalates
Heavy rainfall and gale force winds are wreaking havoc on large parts of the NSW east cost and as far inland as Oberon, and have claimed a life in Sydney’s inner west.
- Edmund Tadros and AAP
March 2022
Floodwaters likely to peak, now the clean-up and rebuild
Floodwaters will likely peak in areas along the NSW coast on Wednesday and then begin to recede after Sydney suffered its wettest-ever start to a year.
- Edmund Tadros
‘Leave by 7pm’: Narrabeen residents told to evacuate
Residents and businesses near Narrabeen Lagoon were told to evacuate after the torrential rain and wild winds that hammered Sydney’s south-west moved to the northern beaches.
- Max Mason
‘Sitting on roofs for a night and a day’: Lismore’s worst-ever flood
An elderly woman has been found dead inside a flooded home in Lismore, in northern NSW, where floodwaters slowly started to recede on Tuesday.
- Tess Bennett
February 2020
More rain in NSW, Sydney faces floodwaters and storm surges
Thousands are without power after a deluge hit the city, but the good news is that its dams are filling fast.
January 2020
Welcome rain falls in fire zones but brings flood risk
Heavy rains are providing welcome to relief in some bushfire zones, but bring with them increased strain on state emergency services from flash floods.
- Hannah Wootton
Mum of three crowd sources funds after house burns
A mother and her three daughters who lost everything in the bushfires are seeking help to rebuild with the not-for-profit donation platform.
- Duncan Hughes
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- Bushfires
Bushfire states face $451m disaster funding cut
In an act of unfortunate timing, the Commonwealth Grants Commission proposes to strip hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster funding for the states hardest hit by devastating fires.
- John Kehoe and Hannah Wootton
November 2019
NSW, Qld bushfires: NSW braces for catastrophic fire risks, 'dire forecast' unchanged
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Tuesday morning said Monday's dire forecast had not changed and told residents to heed the warnings authorities and head for safety.