UPDATE: Premier Campbell Newman is abandoning his Asian trade mission to return to Queensland and help the State prepare for Cyclone Ita. 4.30pm: PREMIER Campbell Newman is abandoning Prime Minister ...

Thousands of homes were without power and residents of worst-hit Cooktown were warned clean water was about to run out as cyclone Ita rolled along Australia’s Barrier Reef coast Sunday. Downgraded ...

Tropical Cyclone Ita's maximum sustained winds have increased over the last day and NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a visible look at the storm on ...

Cyclone Ita is due to intensify into a category four storm early on Thursday morning and cross north of Cooktown on Friday night. Gusts up to 280km/h, storm surges and heavy rain are expected which ...

The twenty-third tropical cyclone of the Southern Pacific tropical cyclone season has developed near the Solomon Islands and strengthened into Tropical Storm Ita on April 5. NASA satellite imagery ...

A JAMES Cook University researcher was hunkered down in Cooktown overnight, collecting rain samples from Severe Tropical Cyclone Ita as the system passed through. Cyclone expert Professor Jon Nott ...

PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's northeast escaped the worst of a tropical cyclone that was expected to wreak havoc and bring dangerous storm tides after it weakened and was downgraded on ...

new video loaded: Australia avoids worst of Cyclone Ita but more wind, rain due Tropical Cyclone Ita hits north Queensland coast overnight on Friday with less force than expected, downgraded to a ...