The Gold Coast’s colourful leader has touched back down in Australia, after getting ‘stuck’ in the US as his city braced for ex-Cyclone Alfred. The long-time council leader found himself ...

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BRISBANE, Australia — A tropical cyclone weakened into a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain that ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Premier David Crisafulli said the cyclone was now expected to cross the coast in the early hours of Saturday morning, though that may change again.

Australia's east coast braced on Wednesday for a tropical cyclone that is swirling towards Brisbane, the country's third-most populous city, as authorities warned thousands of properties were at ...

Experts anticipate that Tropical Cyclone Alfred will make landfall between the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast late Thursday, with damaging winds, storms, and heavy rain to affect a larger warning ...

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which spawned last week amid a rare trio of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, is forecast to make landfall in southern Queensland near Brisbane, Australia ...

Australians in Queensland and some parts of northern NSW are bracing for Tropical Cylone Alfred, the first tropical cyclone to make it to land since 1974. Overnight, experts declared that the ...

An Australian warship on Monday rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who had encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. Aurimas Mockus was taken aboard ...