Victorians have woken to the start of a sweltering weekend marked by a heatwave, fire bans, hot nights and a bushfire that ...

Parts of the country’s southeast are set to be hit by “severe heatwave conditions” heading into the weekend, with some areas tipped to clock temperatures upwards of 40C.

A Vietnamese national allegedly caught fleeing a bushfire with trucks full of cannabis has been wanted in South Australia ...

Some properties are under threat in Perth's east as emergency crews battle a fast-moving bushfire. Added18 minutes ago Seventeen ... assault after an altercation at a sports club on the NSW-Victoria ...

The Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 have been recorded as one of Australia's deadliest natural disasters. The toll that such ...

It’s just past midnight in the cool, ancient forests of Tasmania. We’ve spent a long day and night surveying endangered Tasmanian devils. All around, small animals scurry through bushes. A devil calls ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced emergency disaster payments for people affected by a major bushfire ...

The threat of bushfires on both sides of the country has finally eased. Warnings for an out-of-control blaze in Western ...

A wildlife ecologist says it may take decades to recover what has been lost to an ongoing bushfire in one of the "most ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised disaster relief payments as he visited bushfire-hit areas of Victoria. A man has been charged with murder after a man’s body was found in the driveway of a ...

The Disaster Recovery Allowance provides up to 13 weeks of income support for workers and sole traders who have experienced loss of income as a result of recent bushfires in the Rural City of Ararat, ...

Bushfire-hit workers and sole traders can apply for income support as the prime minister visits the area where a massive ...