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 eastern edge of Perth, threatening homes, cutting power to ...

Bushfires destroyed more than a dozen houses along the Central Coast of Australia's New South Wales during a blistering December heatwave, prompting conspiracy theories online that the blazes were ...

Australian insurers are expanding on-the-ground activity across several states in response to recent bushfires and severe storms, with general insurers and a major health fund using mobile hubs, ...

Sixteen homes were destroyed in Saturday’s bushfire in the Koolewong community on the NSW Central Coast, including the house of long-time NRMA Insurance customers Tony and Claudio Stellino, who lost ...

Record-high early December temperatures, strong winds and a high fuel load built up over several wet years created the conditions for catastrophic fires last week in parts of New South Wales (NSW) and ...

A firefighter in Australia tragically lost his life after being hit by a tree while fighting a bushfire near Sydney. The fire had already demolished homes and scorched vast areas of bushland, ...

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of ...

The firefighter died after being struck by a tree. Dozens of homes in two states have been lost as hot, windy conditions point to a challenging fire season. By Victoria Kim Reporting from Sydney, ...