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Woman lived with 'blinding' lights shining into her house for three years

Council apologises following delays to responding to floodlights installed without planning permission

Wales Online

West Lothian baby graves to be protected from flooding after winter damage

Bathgate cemetery's baby section was damaged by flooding over the Christmas holidays. Now a new defensive wall should stop all but the most serious flooding from the Bathgate Water

Edinburgh Live

Lack of cross-border flood alerts adds to disaster fears in Nepal

Amid threat of glacial lake floods, analysts rue a lack of information sharing among China, India and Nepal.

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Storm-hit California faces fresh flooding as atmospheric river brings heavy rain, snow

President Biden on Friday ordered Federal assistance to supplement local response efforts due to the emergency conditions.

Axios

SES in 'turmoil, finger pointing' over deadly floods

An inquest into deadly flooding in Tasmania has been told there was a high level of turmoil and finger pointing within the state emergency service.

AAP

California lowering dam water levels, warns of flood threat as storm hits

LOS ANGELES — With back-to-back storms to hit California in the coming days, state officials are scrambling to make strategic releases from key reservoirs in hopes of preventing a repeat of the deadly flooding that killed nearly two dozen people in January.

Los Angeles Times

Crocs lurk, elderly evacuated amid record floods

Evacuations are underway in remote towns and outback properties in north-west Qld with flood warnings for rivers across the isolated region.

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Gulf residents prepare for mass evacuation as record Queensland floods continue

Emergency services have ramped up evacuation efforts in the Gulf of Carpentaria as "unprecedented" floods threaten to submerge towns.

ABC News

State Wallsend flood fix 'would add $140 a year to water bills'

Shadow Minister for Water Rose Jackson is visiting Sonia Hornery's seat, committing to investigate the needs and costs to prevent a repeat of the Pasha Bulker flooding if elected.

Newcastle Herald

North Queensland flood evacuations, top US Republican Mitch McConnell hospitalised, and ex-NBA star Shawn Kemp arrested in drive-by shooting — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

ABC News

Not evacuating town where a woman died in 2016 floods was wrong call, former SES manager tells inquest

An inquest into the death of a woman who died in floodwaters in Tasmania's north-west seven years ago has heard the State Emergency Service's (SES) regional manager for the north-west ignored his colleagues' calls to evacuate the town.

ABC News

California braces for more flooding as another winter storm nears

Governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency in several counties as US state prepares for heavy rainfall.

Al Jazeera

Elderly flown from Burketown amid outback flooding rain

Evacuations will start in remote towns and outback properties in northwest Queensland with flood warnings for a number of rivers in the isolated region.

AAP

New atmospheric river storm barrels toward California

California is bracing for the arrival of an atmospheric river that forecasters warn will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding even as the state is still digging out from earlier storms

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Wakeboarding tower 'sabotaged' after community row over closed flood gates

Local board member and community constable Don Allan says it will be hard for police to determine who cut the big anchor cable; the community must come together and stop pointing fingers over the January floods.

Los Angeles Times

New storm could bring more peril to California rivers already hit by deadly flooding

LOS ANGELES — A powerful storm barreling toward California from the tropical Pacific threatens to trigger widespread river flooding throughout the state as warm rain melts a record accumulation of snowpack and sends runoff surging down mountains and into streams and reservoirs.

Daily Record

Scots dad 'living in building site' for weeks after ripping out bathroom wall to fix leak

Craig Smith had a "major" flood in his flat in the north of Glasgow on February 14 after his bathroom water tank sprang a leak.

WEKU

An Eastern KY high school band shows resilience months after floods

Eastern KY high school rebuilds band program months after devastating floods

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Queensland’s north hit by heavy rain and floods as tropical storm heads south

Widespread rainfall expected in state’s south-east this weekend but nowhere near the 500mm recorded in the north-west

ABC News

Longest New South Wales flood operation in SES history finally over after nearly six months

The largest and longest flood response operation on record from the New South Wales State Emergency Service has today come to a welcome end.

WEKU

More rain and snow bound for California as back-to-back atmospheric rivers approach

Forecasters say the result could be massive flooding and a potential for avalanches across stretches of the state.

ABC News

Unprecedented flooding sparks evacuations in north-west Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria

Emergency situations are unfolding as never-before-seen floods inundate north-west Queensland and rivers rise to record levels.

AAP

Floods come to an end in NSW after record 177 days

The NSW SES has lifted its final flood warning, ending the longest flooding operation in the organisation's history.

AAP

Evacuation advice 'ignored' in deadly Tasmanian floods

It was a mistake to not order the evacuation of a Tasmanian town in the lead-up to deadly flooding, an inquest has been told.

ABC News

Wet season delivers welcome rain for Barkly and Top End cattle stations, despite floods

Cattle stations across the Top End and Barkly regions are experiencing one of their best wet seasons in recent memory, but the rain has come too heavy and fast for some.

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