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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia is bracing for extreme bushfire danger as soaring temperatures fuel what forecasters say may be the most severe heatwave ...

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 ...

Good rainfall across much of Australia in the past year has kept the vegetation green and rivers flowing. But underneath the ...

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 ...

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.

A bushfire burning near the town of Longwood, northern Victoria on January 7, 2026 - Copyright AFP Kerem YUCEL A bushfire burning near the town of Longwood, northern ...

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 ...

Australia is bracing for extreme bushfire danger as soaring temperatures fuel what forecasters say may be the most severe heatwave since the “black summer” of 2019-20. In several regions, daytime ...