An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of bushland north of Sydney, ...

An Australian firefighter died after being struck by a tree while combating a bushfire near Sydney. The incident underscores the dangers faced by emergency crews as bushfires continue to ravage New ...

Australia has dispatched military helicopters to airlift hundreds of people to safety after the country’s northwest was hit by “once-in-a-century” flooding. The crisis in the sparsely populated state ...

—During an unprecedented thunderstorm asthma event in Australia, acute respiratory distress-related emergency medical attendances increased by 432%. Patients on preventive asthma medications were less ...

Australian telecom company Optus has fully restored its National Broadband Network (nbn) services in Brisbane and other ...

Authorities quickly discovered that a diver who had been reported missing, a 65-year-old man from Victoria, Australia, had ...

Residents north of the city of Geraldton in Western Australia have been urged to "leave now" as an emergency warning was ...