- January 30th, 2026
A fast-moving bushfire burning in Victoria’s south-west has placed multiple communities on high alert after escaping containment lines amid extreme heat, gusty winds and parched conditions across the state. Emergency authorities issued urgent warnings on Saturday afternoon as the fire...
Victoria is confronting a perilous mix of extreme weather, as ongoing strong winds threaten to complicate firefighting efforts while communities continue to recover from devastating floods. Nearly a dozen bushfires across the state have burned more than 410,000 hectares, destroying...
Extreme heat and fierce winds, more than 30 fires continued to burn across Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, raising concerns about the worsening fire season and the role of climate change in shaping Australia’s increasingly volatile...
Victoria is facing a catastrophic bushfire crisis, with at least one confirmed death, hundreds of homes destroyed, and emergency warnings still in place as out-of-control blazes continue to ravage the state. Authorities confirmed that a man in his 60s died...
Victoria is facing a severe bushfire crisis, with at least 119 structures destroyed and more than 300,000 hectares of bushland burned as fires continue to rage across the state. Authorities warn that many of the blazes could burn for “days,...
Australian firefighters are battling two emergency-level bushfires across Victoria as volatile conditions fuel what authorities describe as a rapidly evolving and dangerous crisis. The most severe, the out-of-control Longwood fire in central Victoria, has already scorched more than 130,000 hectares,...
Victoria has entered what authorities describe as the most perilous phase of an unfolding bushfire emergency, with a volatile wind change, extreme heat and multiple active fires threatening communities across the state. Premier Jacinta Allan warned late Friday that the...
Australia is facing a potentially record-breaking heatwave, with more than half the country set to swelter under extreme temperatures that meteorologists say could rival the conditions experienced during the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has issued...