Residents in several towns in Victoria's west have been advised to "leave immediately" as strong winds drive an ...

There's heatwave alerts for most of Australia while forecast dry lightning has sparked fears of "uncontrollable" fires on the ...

The rain-soaked north of the country will continue to face heavy rainfall for days, while fires and wild storms continue to ...

While most Aussies wouldn't have a clue about it, a scientist told Yahoo News he fears it may be 'too late' to control the problem.

How ready are Australian cities for fires? Australia is not well prepared for scenarios such as this. But rather than be fatalistic and assume urban areas are open game for wildfires, effort is ...

But U.S. officials never requested it. They knew that Australia, heading into its own fire season, was already dealing with a recent fire in Victoria state that burned more than 187,800 acres and ...

South Australians are again waking up to the smell of smoke as it drifts over parts of Adelaide from bushfires in western ...

Homes and lives are under threat in the Wheatbelt town of Northam as a bushfire blazes through the area. Locals have been warned it is now too late to leave for those in an area bounded by Spencers ...

The insurance price tag for the Los Angeles fires is estimated to be more than $US20 billion ($32 billion). As California faces an insurance crisis, experts say the ...

But when devastating wildfires erupted around L.A. last month, the utility hadn’t installed the experimental system more broadly across its territory. It remains unknown what caused the Eaton, ...

Experts warn that the unfolding destruction of the LA fires could be replicated in Australia. In Australia, as in California, governments are engaged in criminal neglect, refusing to adequately ...