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.

The slow-moving tropical storm, named Alfred, is on track to bring dangerous winds and flooding along the coast of Queensland ...

They are the first of around 3,000 residents set to be turfed out of the long-established Waterloo Housing Estate, to make ...

Australia braced for a rare east coast tropical cyclone that is swirling towards Brisbane, its third-most populous city, with ...

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 ...

A 61-year-old man remained missing after being swept away in a flooded river near the town of Dorrigo in New South Wales and ...

"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 ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Flooding rains lashed the Australian east coast even though it avoided the destructive winds of ...