A heavily populated stretch of Australia's eastern coast battened down on Tuesday for what could be the first tropical ...

By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Australia’s east coast is bracing for impact as Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which had been expected to remain offshore, now ...

Significant damage and power outages are possible in the densely populated region of Queensland, where tropical cyclones impacts are not uncommon, but direct landfalls are.