Stable conditions and cooler weather are giving firefighters welcome relief as initial damage assessments reveal at least three homes have been lost to fire.

A bushfire grew to more than 74,000 hectares (182,857 acres) by Friday, December 27, burning through swathes of Grampians ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the rare and exciting arrival of a baby pygmy hippo on December 9. The calf was born to parents Iris and Corwin after a seven-month gestation ...

Timelapse footage captured a bushfire tearing across a hill in Bellfield, Victoria, near Grampians National Park on the evening of Friday,. On Friday, all emergency warnings had been downgraded to a ...

Australian firefighters said Friday they were fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed ...

In the new year, federal lawmakers will have to climb mounds of paperwork again, to re-file a bill to make the Ocmulgee Historical Mounds into a national park.

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are bracing for potentially devastating wild fires ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...

Authorities are bracing for what could be the worst bushfire conditions seen in five years, with high temperatures and gusty ...