Several wildfires are also burning in the state of Victoria, where Melbourne, Australia’s second biggest city, is located.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bushfire burnt uncontrollably in the south of Western Australia on Thursday, January 22, prompting multiple Emergency Bushfire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 19-year-old man has been charged in Australia after a bushfire sparked by a firework on New Year’s Eve tore through bushland on ...

Three people, including a child, are missing after bushfires tore through parts of Victoria under “catastrophic” conditions, destroying homes and forcing emergency warnings across south-eastern ...

Extreme weather events are increasingly coming in waves, giving communities just days or hours to recover before the next ...

Australia's bushfire emergency has sparked an online disinformation campaign "unprecedented" in the country's history, researchers told AFP Friday, with bots deployed to shift blame for the blazes ...

More than 1,000 families in Victoria are being urged to evacuate as bushfires burn across the state and a severe heatwave pushes temperatures in parts of southeast Australia towards 50C. Emergency ...

PERTH, Australia — Cooler temperatures and easing winds on Monday helped firefighters contain a bushfire that killed two people and razed 143 properties, with clean-up efforts getting underway. The ...

The fire danger was elevated across wider swathes of southern Australia on Thursday, with residents warned to avoid at-risk areas as smoke from bushfires choked Sydney and other major cities.

SYDNEY — A record-breaking heatwave is impacting southeast Australia, with temperature records tumbling in parts of Victoria and South Australia. More than 1,000 families in Victoria are being urged ...