Millions of Australians are set to swelter through a severe heatwave on Friday and into the weekend, with temperatures exceeding 40C across much of the country — a contrast made clear on a real-time ...

Hello and welcome to Yahoo's live coverage of the extreme heatwave sweeping large parts of Australia this week. Victoria is ...

There is a total fire ban across the entire state, with Premier Jacinta Allan warning of a "perfect storm" of dangerous ...

Communities that could now be impacted by fire front or embers from the Longwood fire between now and 11pm tonight include Whiteheads Creek, Avenel, Locksley, Creighton, Strathbogie, Tallangallook, ...

Two children and a teenager have been rescued within 15 minutes of each other at Woonona Beach on Thursday in a string of ...

Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...

The equivalent of less than 5 per cent of Cessnock households have responded to a survey about the local council's proposal ...

A 17-year-old girl has died and two other people are in a critical condition after a car and a ute collided on a busy road ...

Authorities have issued total fire bans across parts of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales on Friday.

A royal commission into the Bondi terror attacks should be given every chance of success, senior Jewish figures say, despite ...