February 14, 8am: West Coast bushfire smoke has spread down to Southern Tasmania — with a smoke alert issued, while the community of Zeehan is unable to return home after blazes swept through. The ...

However, firefighting crews are crossing their fingers for relief across the weekend with predictions of a chilly change that ...

The Tasmanian town of Zeehan and other coastal communities are in the path of bushfires, with the residents of one tiny town ...

Bushfires that have burnt through wilderness areas in Tasmania are now threatening trees that grow nowhere else in the world and are critical to the state's honey industry — as authorities confirm an ...

Adelaide is in for a scorching high of 43C on Wednesday before the temperature drops to 27C on Thursday, while Hobart is set ...

16 bushfires are still burning across the West Coast, with emergency services issuing a watch and act alert for people near the remote Sandy Cape Track. The fires have already scorched nearly 30,000 ...

A state-of-the-art catamaran reveals a stretch of Tasmania’s rugged southern coastline that few visitors get to see.

Tasmania’s brisk waters produce some of the world’s best seafood with briny ingredients being reclaimed and reinvented on ...

Tasmanian authorities have extended the closure of the Overland Track as 19 fires continued to rage across nearly 11,000 ...

Firefighters are concentrating their efforts on containing more than a dozen bushfires burning on Tasmania’s West Coast. 17 ...

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