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.

A high fire-danger rating covers most of the state, except for the Wimmera, where the risk is extreme and the weeks-long ...

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 ...

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

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

A bushfire grew to more than 74,000 hectares (182,857 acres) by Friday, December 27, burning through swathes of Grampians ...

Australian firefighters are battling a massive bushfire in Victoria’s Grampians National Park, covering an area the size of ...

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are bracing for potentially devastating wild fires ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities on Thursday to leave home "immediately" to escape an ...

Victorian Emergency Management Commissioner Rick Nugent said there had been stock losses, as well as damage to fencing and ...

An uncontained bushfire raging in Australia's Victoria state that has prompted an evacuation order for hundreds of residents will burn for several days, officials said on Sunday.