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In an emergency, the ABC will broadcast regular warnings on ABC Radio. Melbourne has dropped to 30C after reaching a top of 43.1C just before 4pm. It comes as VicEmergency issued emergency warnings ...

Good rainfall across much of Australia in the past year has kept forests healthy. But underneath the ocean waves, it was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Longwood bushfire burns, in a location given as Longwood, Victoria, Australia, in this handout image released on January 7, ...

Warnings over a bushfire burning in Riverlea Park along the Gawler River near Virginia have been downgraded to advice level. The CFS issued a ‘Watch and Act’ warning on Thursday afternoon but ...

Firefighters are battling dozens of blazes under extreme fire conditions from the Mid West to Great Southern including areas around the Perth Hills. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warned very hot and ...

The iconic South Australian wine sector has been decimated, with the Adelaide Hills bushfire at the weekend wiping out one-third of vineyards. The incredibly fast-moving blaze wiped out a third of the ...

At least 21 people — 17 from NSW, two from Victoria and two from South Australia — are now known to have died in one of Australia’s most devastating bushfire seasons yet, and there are growing fears ...

Former NSW fire chief Greg Mullins warned the outer suburbs were at risk of raging fires and Australian cities had the potential for fires similar to the blazes that devastated Los Angeles last year.

Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave blanketed the region, creating some of the most dangerous bushfire weather since the "Black Summer" blazes of 2019-2020. Dozens of rural hamlets in the state ...

The vast majority of aged care facilities would be unable to evacuate in the case of a bushfire, according to the Australian ...

Sarah and Ross also need their farm vehicles to help to restore 18km of fencing around the farm, which was scorched by the ...