The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

Over the past three years, Australians have been bombarded by natural disasters as record-breaking fires and monster floods hit communities hard.

As much of NSW's south-east burned during the night of January 4, 2020, an unexpected flood inundated dozens of homes when a water tank in north Cooma burst..

Essential Energy says it is changing its bushfire risk policies, after a Black Summer bushfire burnt through 3000 hectares.

A reported delay in sending emergency alerts and poor mobile reception in regional NSW are among issues examined by a coronial inquiry into the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires.

The Rural Fire Service agrees a report into the Grose Valley fire should clearly state it was the accidental result of backburning.

Residents are left with questions about a back-burn in the Blue Mountains during the Black Summer bushfires, as NSW Rural Fire Service commissioners address a community meeting of people devastated by the blaze.

Organiser Scott Commens and the owners of Riverwood Downs decided to call off the event in the face of the 2019 bushfires, which were burning just kilometres away from the festival site.

Lloyd's has been hit with a lawsuit for around $870,000 after refusing to compensate a NSW music festival cancelled during the Black Summer bushfires.

The fire chief who guided NSW through the Black Summer bushfire crisis says he learned via media reports he was getting sacked from a state disaster agency.

It’s been a tough couple of years for Australian farmers. Just months after Black Summer’s devastation, the pandemic struck. Catastrophic floods soon followed. African Swine Fever and foot and mouth on our doorstep pose an enormous threat, as do the more banal issues of inflation and labour shortages.

UK researchers reveal Australia's Black Summer bushfires likely damaged the ozone layer and caused the highest temperatures in the stratosphere in 30 years.