bushfires

A volunteer member of the Rural Fire Service in New South Wales (NSW) has been charged for deliberately lighting over 30 grass fires during bushfire season in late 2020. NSW ...

Firefighters spent the night battling blazes in Western Australia, including two outside of Perth. The fires were burning ...

A little pygmy possum has been discovered on South Australia's Kangaroo Island after fears it might have been ...

Rob Rogers has been confirmed as the successor to Shane Fitzsimmons as leader of the NSW Rural Fire ...

No one could have predicted the scale of the bushfires that spread across NSW and exceeded even the ...

Without urgent intervention an Australian national icon, the koala, may become extinct in New South Wales (NSW) before ...

The chief executive officer of the Country Fire Authority (CFA), Steve Warrington, has resigned after a career spanning ...

A number of councils have told the bushfires royal commission that telecommunication problems meant some communities had no ...

Australia needs to send "swarms" of aircraft to aggressively attack bushfires early, the aerial firefighting industry says. Aircraft ...

The smoke from the recent wildfires caused 445 premature deaths and thousands of hospital admissions with an estimated ...

The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements hearing is focusing on the impact of the Black Summer ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced a detailed national inquiry into the recent devastating bushfires that killed ...

Parts of Australia were hit by heavy rains on Feb. 6, while the country’s northwest braces for a ...

A parliamentary inquiry will unpick allegations that Australia's NSW government was unprepared for a bushfire-smoke health crisis. The ...

The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that hazard reduction measures are as necessary as carbon emissions reduction to prepare ...

Heavy downpours and thunderstorms drenched Australia’s bushfire-ravaged east coast on Jan. 17, bringing temporary relief to firefighters.

An Indigenous burn practitioner on Jan. 15 urged Australia's state fire policymakers to “cut the stringent red tape” ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has praised the White House for revising a warning for travelers to Australia. ...

Australian authorities issued new warnings, and evacuation notices across the country's densely populated southeast on Thursday as a ...

SYDNEY—Australian authorities warned people on Wednesday to prepare for another wave of evacuations as temperatures in the country's ...