The weather forecaster said temperatures would be up to 14 deg C above average in some areas. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A scorching heatwave gripped southeastern Australia on Saturday, intensifying bushfire risks and prompting authorities to ...

Hot, sticky conditions in central and southeast parts of the country are expected to endure through the weekend.

In the same week that the bushfire in the Grampians began, the Albanese Labor government announced four coal mine expansions.

A Vietnamese national allegedly caught fleeing a bushfire with trucks full of cannabis has been wanted in South Australia since 2021 after a huge crop seizure, a court has been told.

A bushfire grew to more than 74,000 hectares (182,857 acres) by Friday, December 27, burning through swathes of Grampians ...

Total fire bans will be in effect across much of Victoria on Sunday as temperatures peak and firefighters face challenging ...

Parts of the country’s southeast are set to be hit by “severe heatwave conditions” heading into the weekend, with some areas tipped to clock temperatures upwards of 40C.

The threat of bushfires on both sides of the country has finally eased. Warnings for an out-of-control blaze in Western ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised disaster relief payments as he visited bushfire-hit areas of Victoria.

The Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 have been recorded as one of Australia's deadliest natural disasters. The toll that such ...

Bushfire-hit workers and sole traders can apply for income support as the prime minister visits the area where a massive ...