For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre appears set to fill for only the fourth time in 160 years.

Councils are expected to spend $2bn over the next five years in managing the impacts of floods, fires and other natural disasters, with the peak body for local governments calling on the commonwealth ...

Napa is just over an hour from San Francisco, and although not strictly on the way to Yosemite, it makes an excellent detour ...