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.

The heat will peak over the weekend and a cool change from the west will ease heatwave conditions from Monday. Locations likely to be impacted include Moe and Mallacoota. The fire may have passed and ...

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

At least three homes and nearly a dozen outbuildings have been destroyed by bushfire in Victoria as firefighters take advantage of more settled conditions to try to contain the blaze. Huge ...

A number of emergency evacuation orders have been downgraded after a cool change swept through western Victoria overnight.

A bushfire in western Victoria continues to burn out-of-control but authorities have downgraded the threat to communities, citing milder weather. Crews have begun to assess property damage ...

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

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

Victoria’s bushfire threat has finally begun to ease after burning through an area the “size of Singapore” over the Christmas period. Hundreds of firefighters are still battling the 76,000 ...

Three homes and nearly a dozen outbuildings have been destroyed as a huge bushfire continues to burn out of control in ...

The threat of bushfires will continue in an already-scorched region even after hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned ...