SYDNEY, Australia – After months of devastating bushfires in Australia, it seems things have taken a turn for the better. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service announced Thursday that for the first ...

The south west face of the so called "mega fire" at Gospers Mountain is within three kilometres of the Mount Piper Power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly released satellite imagery from Copernicus EU shows the scale of the bushfires affecting the Australian state of Victoria.

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...

Bushfires have razed hundreds of buildings across southeast Australia, authorities said Sunday, as they confirmed the first death from the disaster. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave ...

Dozens of bushfires raged over the weekend as far afield as the mid-north coast of New South Wales and Tasmania's east coast. A NSW firefighter tragically lost his life, 16 homes burned down in the ...

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 ...