Picture this: it's 2030, in the seaside suburb of Sumner in Otautahi Christchurch. That's only five years' time, but the sea is already to quote novelist and science writer Jane Shearer, tearing off ...

Flash floods across Botswana have killed seven people including three children and uprooted thousands after days of heavy rains, President Duma Boko said on Saturday.

Heavy rain that has poured down since Friday evening has caused flash floods in four villages of Bong Ti subdistrict in ...

February 22 saw a big scientific breakthrough with the successful cloning of a mammal for the first time in 1997. Dolly was ...

The White House is courting more disaster by suspending a FEMA requirement that public structures damaged or destroyed by ...

Police said they are responding to an incident at an address on Grassmere Street, Papanui.

As much as Christchurch will alter as climate changes, it will remain a lucky place because it will still have liveable ...

MetService Meteorologist John Law says this amount of rain could cause surface flooding and slips on the road. He says it's worth taking extra time and care - and keeping an eye on the forecast. Crusa ...

Two years since Cyclone Gabrielle. In Hawke’s Bay, where the damage and loss of life was greatest, it’s been a long 24 months. So much work has been done, but the region doesn’t feel like it’s fully ...

Metereologist John Law says heavy showers could change into a storm quickly. He says the thunderstorms will be slow moving which brings a risk of localised heavy rain.

An atmospheric river brought additional rain, strong winds, and flooding to the Bay Area Tuesday, triggering evacuation orders for the area around the Russian River in Sonoma County. In addition ...

The body of an 82-year-old woman has been found in a cane paddock near Ingham in the second flood-related death in north Queensland. Police said the body of the woman was found shortly after 11am.