Record-breaking temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius will be experienced in several parts of Australia from today.

A health warning was issued to Melbourne residents as the city was covered in smoke from a bushfire burning in the Otways, in ...

This is a very serious set of weather conditions’ Emergency Management Commissioner Tim Wiebusch says ...

Many face an impossible choice – protect the home they love in case the worst happens, or go underinsured as a result of ever ...

The 1961 south west Western Australian bushfires provided a classic, rare case study where the recommendations of a Royal ...

Graham Simpson, chair of the Ash Wednesday Bushfire Education Centre, agrees many Australians still do not recognise their ...

Millions will swelter over the Australia Day long weekend, with forecasts of extreme heatwave temperatures, while a cyclone ...

Australia has just experienced its worst heatwave in six years but it's set to become much more common under existing policies to curb carbon emissions.

Another inquiry is not a solution but a smokescreen: a mechanism to channel anger into years of hearings and reports, while the same underlying policies remain untouched.

Heatwave conditions this week are expected to prompt further bushfire activity in Victoria.

Adelaide’s key Australia Day event has been delayed as temperatures soar into the 40s over the long weekend, plunging the ...

He told the Bondi terror attack mourning service it was a “bitter reality” to realise Australia was not immune to such a “dark and evil crime”.