Clever engineering and regular maintenance keep a 100-year-old dam and levee system operating, protecting more than $10 billion in property annually.

Civil Defence says the evacuation alert system for Hawke’s Bay is more resilient and the region is “better prepared” for a ...

Ratepayers in Edgecumbe, Westland, Christchurch and around NZ are paying an unprecedented price for increasingly frequent ...

Cyclone Gabrielle killed 11 people nationwide and destroyed thousands of homes in February 2023. Two years on, its grieving victims are warning authorities have failed to make the changes needed to ...

The cost of the Miami Conservancy District’s flood protection system is currently paid by the roughly 39,000 property owners in the floodplain of the 1913 flood.

The Queensland Fire Department has released video footage captured by its drone pilots playing vital roles in the response ...

San Gabriel Valley areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they ...

Residents are waking to cyclone damage after wild weather struck northern Australia, with flood warnings following "exceptionally rare" rain.

While the Eaton Fire is contained, the danger to foothill communities is not. Heavy rainfall expected on Thursday and Friday ...

A FLOOD defence scheme which would have seen a more ... May that the county council would install a new drainage carrier system to prevent water from coming up the Hanley Road drains.

Major infrastructural and engineering developments have been installed as part of the country's defence against floods. But ...