‘Leave immediately’: Residents in Australia’s Victoria state urged to flee out-of-control bushfire - Police are investigating if the bushfire was deliberately lit ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...

Victoria's premier has vowed to request a formal review of the state's disastrous bushfire season, to be led by an independent disaster advisory body. The announcement follows days of pressure on ...