Much of southern Australia is sweltering through a three-day "sticky" heatwave with increasing fire danger risks amid blazes ...

Hot, sticky conditions in central and southeast parts of the country are expected to endure through the weekend.

In the same week that the bushfire in the Grampians began, the Albanese Labor government announced four coal mine expansions.

Australia's southeast on Saturday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large parts of Victoria state.

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 since 2021 after a huge crop seizure, a court has been told.

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reignited fury after appearing to defend a Labor premier who sparked backlash over a ...

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 ...

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, ...