Much of southern Australia is sweltering through a three-day "sticky" heatwave with increasing fire danger risks amid blazes ...

Australia's southeast on Saturday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large parts of Victoria state.

A high fire-danger rating covers most of the state, except for the Wimmera, where the risk is extreme and the weeks-long ...

Authorities have declared a total fire ban for parts of western Victoria near where an out-of-control bushfire continues to ...

The heat will peak on Sunday before a cool change extends from the west and eases heatwave conditions on Monday. Locations likely to be impacted include the Melbourne Metropolitan area, Ballarat, Moe, ...

Parts of the country’s southeast are set to be hit by “severe heatwave conditions” heading into the weekend, with some areas tipped to clock temperatures upwards of 40C.