Bushfire

By Byron KayeSYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he wants greater federal powers during natural disasters, as authorities warned bushfires ravaging the country for months were sweeping through a national park near the capital.Morrison said he wanted to set up a "legal framework that would…

By Mark Kaufman2020-01-28 21:10:10 UTC Australia's historic fire season, enhanced by a warming climate, still rages.  Though the profoundly parched bushlands around southeastern Australia received a much-needed deluge in mid-January, the rain was only enough to reduce fires — not stomp them out. It's still peak fire season in many…

Bushfires are still scorching Australia and the crisis is far from over. On Tuesday, a bushfire dubbed the Orroral Fire started in a national park near the capital city of Canberra quadrupled in size and quickly grew by hundreds of acres an hour. The latest…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The three U.S. firefighters killed when their C-130 Hercules tanker plane crashed while battling fierce bushfires in Australia were all former U.S. military members aged in their 40s with extensive flight experience. Coulson Aviation, the private Canadian firm that employed the trio, named them on Friday as…

The Red Cross in Australia is coming under fire from at least one local politician for dispersing just a quarter of the money collected for bushfire victims who have lost their homes. About $20.5 million of the $78.7 million ($30 million of $115 million in Au…

(CNN)Greg Page, the original lead singer of the popular Australian children's music group The Wiggles, has been rushed to hospital during the band's charity concert for bushfire relief in Sydney. The Yellow Wiggle of the much-loved four-piece group was taken…

Cats are scientifically, objectively, monumentally terrible for the planet. In the US alone, free-ranging domestic cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mammals a year, to say nothing of reptiles and amphibians. They are a scourge of the highest …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption James Murdoch (at right) sits on the News Corp board but his brother Lachlan (left) has a bigger role in the family business Rupert Murdoch's son James has said he is "disappointed" with the ongoing "denial" in his …

After taking the title at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand on Sunday, Serena Williams announced that she would be donating all of the prize money, a total of $43,000 USD, to relief efforts for the massive bushfires currently ravaging Australia, accord…

news, latest-news, Australia Day fireworks have been cancelled in Canberra and Queanbeyan due to the ongoing bushfire crisis in the region. The ACT government will host a morning concert in Commonwealth Park instead of the annual fireworks show along the lake at night. The event will feature Australian indie-pop artists…