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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People take pictures near the Sydney Opera House, in Circular Quay, during hot weather in Sydney, Australia, January 27, 2026.

Australian inventors have developed technology that detects potential power line faults, like the one that sparked a deadly Black Saturday bushfire, before they happen. Created by researchers at RMIT ...

Ange Gordon had no idea a bushfire was approaching her home on Black Saturday until she spotted the smoke cloud in the distance. On February 7, 2009, Ms Gordon was returning to her home in Traralgon ...

From the inferno of Black Thursday in 1851 to the devastation of Black Summer starting at the end of 2019, bushfires have a powerful legacy in post-European settlement Victoria. These fires have not ...