Australia's New South Wales on Sunday sweated in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and prompted authorities to issue a total fire ban for state capital Sydney.

Health authorities have warned residents in Melbourne and Sydney to remain cautious after multiple cases of the same infectious disease were detected in the capital cities.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia's prime minister cautioned that the fallout from a vicious tropical storm over the ...

One person has died and several were injured as flooding rains lash the Australian east coast even though it avoided its ...

"This event is far from over," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a news conference in the flood-hit New South Wales city of Lismore. "We need to continue to not be complacent." The tropical ...

As of Friday afternoon, it was hovering about 80 miles off the coast of the city and already causing flooding with abnormally high tides. To the south, in the neighboring state of New South Wales ...

stretch of coast straddling Queensland and New South Wales. The tropical depression dumped 30 centimetres (one foot) of rain in 24 hours over Queensland's capital city of Brisbane, the bureau of ...