Bushfires

Dry and windy conditions fanned the flames, forcing motorists on the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to abandon their cars and run for their lives.

Firefighters have controlled a blaze close to Benloch, where nearby residents were earlier warned to take shelter.

John King captured footage of a 100-metre-tall fire column only 50 metres from his back door. Fire analysts say the phenomenon is becoming more common as the climate changes.

South Australians are being urged to take care with campfires over Easter, as the fire danger season is extended for the Mount Lofty Ranges. Beachgoers are also being warned to assess local conditions as an algal bloom persists along parts of the coast.

New data shows dozens of suburbs around the country are at risk of becoming uninsurable, triggering warnings of a "climate-induced credit crunch". 

An out-of-control bushfire in central Victoria has come within 100 metres of private property, but authorities say fire behaviour dropped off on Sunday afternoon.

Authorities have issued warnings about a bushfire in Victoria’s central-west after fire crews lost control of a planned burn near Daylesford.

Scientists at Melbourne Zoo are celebrating after successfully breeding two critically endangered Victorian frog species in a world-first.

For residents of Altadena, hopes of rebuilding their community just as it was are facing mounting challenges.

For the first time this Victorian bushfire season, a specialist Indigenous team protected sacred sites from the Grampians and Little Desert blazes, preventing important art and history from turning to ash. 

An emergency warning for a fire that forced the evacuation of homes in the suburb of Ferndale in the early hours of the morning is downgraded, but residents are told it is not yet safe to return to the area. 

An Indigenous community in the Wheatbelt says a collaborative traditional burning program is bringing reconciliation to the region.

The South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) says the threat from a bushfire burning near Robe, in the state's south-east, has reduced. 

A vulnerable population of ground-dwelling malleefowl survived bushfires that tore through one of its few remaining refuges in Victoria, but the remaining hatchlings now face a new challenge.

In more than three decades with Victoria's CFA, Jarrod Dark has fought plenty of intense fires. But with 17 hours' sleep in 10 days, no fire season has left him as exhausted as this summer's Grampians emergency.

Volunteer firefighters and their support staff have travelled more than 1,000 kilometres to help small towns fighting fires in South Australia's south-east.

The warning level for a bushfire burning in Ledge Point, north of Perth, is downgraded as authorities reveal the blaze was deliberately lit.

Light rain and cooler temperatures help firefighters get on top of a blaze burning in South Australia's lower south-east.

As WA's south-west gets "loved to death" by visitors and slated for more tourism developments, there are concerns road infrastructure is lacking in bushfire-prone areas with only one road out.

Tasmania has been treated to both ends of the spectrum, with a bushfire burning near a west coast town at the same time as a massive storm front delivering large hail in other parts of the state.