Vast swaths of southeastern Australia are sweltering in a heat wave that’s pushed temperatures to close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and forced some residents to protect their ...

More than two dozen towns and localities in the Otways region were told to evacuate yesterday evening, with firefighters ...

Parts of Australia were sweltered in record temperatures of close to 122 degrees as the country sweated through a prolonged ...

Fire in Otways has burned about 9,400 hectares and could spread as far as Lorne amid onset of heatwave in Victoria ...

The second major heatwave in a month could see temperatures rise to 49 deg C in some regions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Three people, including a child, are missing after bushfires tore through parts of Victoria under “catastrophic” conditions, destroying homes and forcing emergency warnings across south-eastern ...

Bushfires across the Australian state of Victoria were destroying homes, forcing evacuations, and burning through vast swathes of bushland, authorities said on Friday. Victoria's Emergency Management ...