Firefighting authorities on the country’s east coast are bracing for the worst fire season since the devastating Black Summer ...

Every year, government workers around Australia start fires in the bush. The idea behind these prescribed burning programs is ...

After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates ...

Frogs need water. But new research into how bushfires and floods impact them finds they can have too much of a good thing.

The NSW Government has now responded to all 76 recommendations from the NSW Bushfire Inquiry, transforming the state's ability to prepare, respond and ...

Dry conditions dogging Victoria put the state at a high risk of bushfires this summer, according to the latest summer fire ...

Leon Bignell has announced he will retire from politics at the next state election bringing an end to his 20-year reign as ...

A class action seeking $250m in compensation for the victims of the 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire will begin on Monday, in a ...

Bushfire alerts have reached their highest levels in years across parts of the country. Australians are being warned not to ...

Victoria’s short-lived free camping trial was bankrolled by a pot of money set up to respond natural disasters such as bushfires and floods.

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen this beloved marsupial in the wild and it is No. 1 on my wishlist for this trip. I’m emotional, ­especially knowing how the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires decimated ...