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 ...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Two people have died and more than a hundred homes have been destroyed in a huge bushfire, Australian authorities said Sunday, as firefighters battled to tame the out-of-control ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state. The ...

The Australian spring started with a heat wave hitting large parts of the continent’s southeast this week, indicating that the country faces a devastating bushfire season. Warnings issued by the ...