Local authorities say factors such as the dry landscape and climate change contributed to intense fires during an early ...

The animated wind/temperature map and other visualisations that show how the Victorian fires spread ...

From bushfires Down Under to European floods, insurance and brokerage leaders are facing the same pressure-cooker mix: surge volumes, complex coverage questions, increasing claims costs, rising custom ...

(Kylie Shingles/CFA WANDONG FIRE BRIGADE/AFP) Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry ...

By Renju Jose and Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A major heatwave across Australia's southeast stoked bushfires, ...

A record-breaking heatwave baked Australia's southeast for a fifth straight day on Wednesday, fanning bushfires and straining ...

A second Fire and Emergency New Zealand deployment of firefighters departs today (Saturday 31 January) to support firefighting efforts in Victoria, Australia. This follows a formal request from ...

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of ...

Thousands of firefighters battled bushfires across Australia's Victoria state, as fires sparked by an intense midweek heatwave burned more than 741,000 acres of bushland. At least 10 major ...

The 1961 south west Western Australian bushfires provided a classic, rare case study where the recommendations of a Royal ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...