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Residents in Taree begin the flood clean-up on Saturday.

More than 30,000 isolated, 400 properties destroyed in flood aftermath

The true damage caused by the northern NSW flood disaster is becoming clearer.

  • Angus Dalton and Daniel Lo Surdo

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Local businesses are cleaning up after floods in Taree.

‘Mammoth task’: 10,000 homes damaged as NSW flood clean-up forges ahead

The skies have cleared above the Mid North Coast and Hunter, but Premier Chris Minns warned the crisis was far from over as devastated communities survey the damage.

  • Megan Gorrey, Patrick Begley and Clare Sibthorpe
A home surrounded by flood waters on The Bucketts Way in South Taree, NSW.

Road closures, emergency warnings and more: What to know about the NSW floods

The latest evacuation and emergency warnings, plus road closure information due to flooding in northern NSW.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo, Frances Howe, Angus Dalton and Riley Walter
A private property inundated by water on the banks of the Wallamba River on The Lakes Way near Tuncurry.

NSW flooding as it happened: Three dead, 50,000 isolated as rainfall continues to batter state; Warragamba Dam could spill; More wet weather ahead

Hundreds of millimetres of rain fell in north-eastern NSW on May 22, 2025, as a major emergency response continued.

  • Josefine Ganko, Angus Dalton and Riley Walter
James Larking, 54, at his flooded home in Pampoolah.

Three dead, one missing as thousands evacuated from flood zone

Mass evacuations are underway in more than a dozen towns and many rural districts in northern NSW as the state prepares for more extreme rainfall.

  • Angus Dalton, Riley Walter, Frances Howe, Daniel Lo Surdo, Ben Cubby, Josefine Ganko and Patrick Begley
Robyn Doust and her dog Gypsy being rescued by NSW Fire & Rescue strike team alpha and bravo members and SES on the Manning River Drive near Taree in Purfleet, NSW. May 21, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

‘Not out of the woods yet’: Locals brace for more rain amid flood disaster

The Mid North Coast is coming to grips with a “one-in-500-year” folding event that saw trapped locals winched from roofs and more than 48,000 isolated.

  • Angus Dalton, Daniel Lo Surdo, Cindy Yin and Kayla Olaya
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Photographs show scenes from the Central coast today where a deepening low pressure system off the coast is producing large and powerful surf. Avoca lake emptying into the beach but experiencing push back from the ocean. Photograph taken Monday 19th May 2025. by Dean Sewell / The Sydney Morning Herald

Thousands without power, evacuation orders as heavy rain lashes NSW

The SES conducted more than 40 flood rescues as flash flooding and intense winds battered the Hunter and Mid North Coast.

  • Cindy Yin
Is it time for Australians to follow in Europe’s footsteps and have a 72-hour emergency survival kit packed and ready to go? Experts say it’s always been time.

Europeans have been urged to prepare a 72-hour emergency kit. Do Australians need to?

With climate, cyber and geopolitical emergencies on the rise, an EU commission has called for citizens to be ready for anything.

  • Bronte Gossling
Lara Bowden, 10, playing in the mud in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, at Skennars Head in northern NSW

‘We need you’: NSW’s plea to rely on Defence in natural disasters

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred stalked the coast for days, but while the flooding risk for Lismore was downgraded, NSW is not out of the woods yet.

  • Matt Wade and Chris Barrett
People are almost washed off the Brunswick Heads rockwall on the NSW north coast as Cyclone Alfred moved closer.

Cyclone Alfred: All your emergency contacts in one place

SES contacts, weather warning updates, evacuation centres near you – here are the details you may need in an emergency this weekend.

  • Jacqueline Lunn

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