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

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 ...

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 ...

They departed this morning and will return to New Zealand on 2 February.

Fanned by warm temperatures and strong winds, the blazes have ripped through an area the size of the US city of Detroit.

Millions will swelter over the Australia Day long weekend, with forecasts of extreme heatwave temperatures, while a cyclone ...

Max Hobson has been identified as the person whose body was found metres from a car following the Longwood bushfire.

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A cattle farmer aged in his early 80s who perished in Victoria’s ­horror bushfires has been ­remembered as “just a great ...

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Pacific -- A new study by World Weather Attribution revealed that climate change is making Australian heatwaves five times ...