CANBERRA - Firefighters have gained control over a factory fire that billowed toxic smoke across Australia's national capital, Canberra. The plume clo...

Firefighters have brought a massive fire at a Melbourne petrochemical factory under control after it ignited tens of thousands of gallons (liters) of...

Police have charged three teenage boys after an early morning fire destroyed parts of Wavell Heights State School in Chermside. Police said a 17-year-...

A fire believed to be suspicious broke out at a three-storey building at Annerley damaging five shops and three apartments. The blaze broke out on the...

Rioters at an Australian immigration detention center set fire to several buildings, climbed onto rooftops and hurled tiles at officials who were scra...

Firefighters battled two wildfires in Western Australia on Monday, water bombing them from above as they tried to stop their spread. One on the outski...

Authorities say a wildfire on the edge of a major Australian city has burned 35 homes. There are no reports of injuries. The Western Australian Fire a...

Earlier this week members of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) in Victoria, Australia, helped save the north-west wheat-belt town of Warracknabeal from...

Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into a...

Flash floods swept through an Australian city Monday, killing at least four people, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as rele...