Nestled on the sunny shores of Queensland’s far north, Cairns is a place where the lush rainforests meet the sapphire waters of the Coral Sea, and where every day feels like a TV advert come to life.

Floodwaters brought by northern Australia’s heaviest rain in decades left a number of families stranded on rooftops overnight — and even swept a crocodile into one town — as weather forecasters ...

Remnants of a tropical cyclone unexpectedly dropped 30 to 40 inches of rain across a swath of Australia’s northeastern coast in recent days, inundating an area known as the gateway to the Great ...