Northeastern Australia is grappling with an unprecedented outbreak of the tropical bacterial infection melioidosis, which has ...

Insurers are preparing for floods hammering the NSW Hunter Region and the state’s Mid-North Coast to worsen, with warnings of ...

Sky News host Paul Murray discusses the New South Wales floods in the Mid-North Coast leaving residents stranded. “We will get to the emergency situation that is unfolding as we speak,” Mr Murray said ...

NSW is in the grips of wild weather and is expected to be so for days yet, with residents along the state’s coast being ...

The aftermath of the cyclone has also wreaked havoc on a significant portion of Cairns, causing widespread damage and leaving numerous residents stranded. Roads engulfed by rising floods outside ...

An outbreak of a soil borne disease linked to heavy rainfall and flooding has resulted in dozens of deaths in northern ...

Melioidosis is caused by an infection from the soil-dwelling bacteria burkholderia pseudomallei — and cases have spiked amid ...

Another person has died from a rare tropical disease in North Queensland, bringing the state's death toll to 31, but doctors ...

Authorities are warning that flood waters could rise up to second ... Parts of the road between Townsville and the tourist centre of Cairns have been cut off, hampering efforts to get rescue ...

Small businesses still feeling the impacts of the North Queensland floods that devastated the region earlier in the year, can ...

At least 31 people have died so far this year in northern Australia from an outbreak of a tropical disease linked to heavy ...

Bacterial infection that thrives in wet soil and stagnant water has hit particularly hard in regions affected by flooding earlier this year ...