PORT HEDLAND, Australia – Residents in Western Australia are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Zelia's impacts after the storm rapidly strengthened into a destructive Category 5 storm ahead of its ...

Cyclone Alfred formed nine days ago in the Coral Sea, 900 kilometers north east of Cairns, then headed out to sea. Then it ...

Cyclone Alfred is the first tropical cyclone so far south off the Queensland’s coast since Gough Whitlam was prime minister. Schools have been shut, public transport parked and two AFL matches punted.

Some are severe, as we saw with Category 5 Cyclone Zelia last month. By contrast, Coral Sea cyclones such as Alfred are much harder to predict. In the southern hemisphere, cyclones spin clockwise.

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

In a briefing which provided a guide, councillors were told in that instance more than 100,000 residential properties would ...

One man died in floodwaters, the authorities said, and over 330,000 customers were without power in South East Queensland.

Australia braced for a rare east coast tropical cyclone that is swirling towards Brisbane, its third-most populous city, with ...