As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, ...

A bushfire burning in the Takayna/Tarkine in Tasmania's north-west has come within metres of a grove that contains the oldest ...

Thousands of dry lightning strikes have sparked multiple bushfires, some within remote national parks and wilderness areas, ...

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

The Overland Track will stay closed until next week as a precaution while bushfires continue to burn through Tasmania’s ...

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In a supplied image, smoke from an out of control bushfire rises over Canning Peak at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, on Wednesday ...

A bushfire triggered by dry lightning has closed a popular walking track and global tourist draw, as firefighters battle to control the “uncontained” fire.

A bushfire at Snug is expected to keep burning “for some weeks yet” as the entire state grapples with a heatwave.

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A bushfire is burning at Zeehan on Tasmania's West Coast. I have worked as a journalist for more than 20 years and have lived ...

The fire broke out in Margate Plains in the Snug Tiers Nature Recreation Area around 4.40pm, with ember attacks and the ...