The latest news and updates on bushfires burning across Australia, featuring 9News reporters on the ground monitoring the situation as firefighters tackle the blazes. The most common causes of ...

well over three billion wild animals. It’s estimated three billion native vertebrates perished in Australia’s Black Summer bushfires – the equivalent of almost half the human population of the planet.

When bushfires tore through the Little Desert ... The malleefowl, considered vulnerable in Australia, is close to the heart of people in Western Victoria. Its image adorns signs on the roads ...

The public response to the Black Saturday infernos was documented by the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission ... How Mining Made Australia and the challenging Immigration Nation, presents ...

Stay alert and monitor your surroundings. * Read through your bushfire plan and decide what you will do if the situation gets worse. You can make a plan by visiting My Bushfire Plan [https ...

Wild weather has blacked out more than 300,000 homes and businesses on Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured. After days hovering ...

March 12, 8.30am: Mountain Heights School will be closed today because of a bushfire that appears to have ignited in the early hours of the morning. A fire alert was first issued just before 2am ...

bushfires burned over 210,000 ha this fire season, while down in Tasmania, almost 100,000 ha of wilderness was lost. In early March, dry lightning sparked 100 fires across South Australia ...

Between 2022 and 2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14 percent, the biggest rise in a decade. The potential disasters continued into the last week of summer, with Victoria ...