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Arial footage of flash flooding along the Calder Highway in Mildura.

Flood warnings downgraded in state’s north after drenching

Mildura in Victoria’s north recorded almost half its usual annual rainfall total since Saturday.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Gemma Grant

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Storms loom over Melbourne on Boxing Day.

Mass flood warnings issued as Victoria braces for thunderstorms, pouring rain

The Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers are among those which could flood due to an intense downpour that has been forecast.

  • Angus Delaney
Cars being retrieved off the Great Ocean Road.

Cars hauled back to land after being swept out to sea by flash floods

The Great Ocean Road was closed as a delicate recovery mission unfolded, one week after flash floods wreaked havoc on campgrounds at the popular holiday destination.

  • Benjamin Preiss, Isabel McMillan and Alexander Darling
The Rivervue Retirement Village on October 14, 2022.

Retirees launch class action over ‘rushed and flawed’ flood modelling

The legal action alleges the Rivervue Retirement Village never would have been inundated by the Maribyrnong River in 2022 if Melbourne Water had done its job.

  • Rachel Eddie
Victoria Police officers in the Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in Williamstown coordinated five aviation assets in the air at once in response to flash flooding along the Great Ocean Road on January 15, 2026.
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Victoria Police aviation assets assists with flash flooding along Great Ocean Road

Victoria Police officers in the Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in Williamstown coordinated five aviation assets in the air at once in response to flash flooding along the Great Ocean Road on January 15, 2026.

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Houses across south-west Victoria were inundated during the Big Flood of 1946.

‘The house collapsed behind them’: The last-minute rescue of a stranded family

Drought settled on Victoria during World War II. Then came fires and finally, the Big Flood, stranding a little family. As Tony Wright recounts, no one was about to let them drown.

  • Tony Wright
Colin Waters and partner Rae at home in their Avondale Heights retirement villa on Wednesday.

‘Avoidable failures’: Government defies watchdog on compensation for flood victims

Residents in one of the worst hit areas of Melbourne’s 2022 floods should get compensation, the Victorian Ombudsman has said in a scathing review.

  • Clay Lucas
Victoria is due to be battered by more severe thunderstorms in the first weekend of summer.

Hail, flash floods: Wild start to summer ahead after tropical storm lashes Melbourne

The first weekend of summer in Victoria will bring heavy rainfall, damaging winds and large hail.

  • Cassandra Morgan

Thunderstorm sweeps through Melbourne after wild weather claims man’s life.

‘Remain vigilant’: Severe weather warnings still active across Victoria

Emergency services warned Victorians to remain on alert on Wednesday night after wild weather lashed the state and rain deluged south-east Melbourne.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Gemma Grant