The death toll jumped to at least 18 as the fire spreads to areas as large as Connecticut and New Jersey combined.

Tens of thousands of residents and tourists across Australia have been urged to evacuate because of massive bushfires.

Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia's iconic marsupial, while the fire danger increased in the country’s east as temperatures soared

A quick-thinking police sergeant rushed to the aid of a choking toddler in a dramatic Christmas Eve rescue that was captured on surveillance video.

SMore than a dozen were injured after shoppers were trampled as balloons filled with free gifts dropped from the ceiling.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for family vacation in Hawaii.

Australia has experienced its hottest day on record and temperatures are expected to soar even higher as heatwave conditions embrace most of the country

The rock is sacred to Australian Aboriginals.

Cardinal George Pell, 78, was sentenced to six years in prison in March.

Wildfires have left a firefighter seriously injured and destroyed several homes in an early start to the fire danger season in southeast Australia

The report finds the greatest threat to the reef remains climate change.

A task force has been formed to curb foreign influence at universities.

Video shows that people pinned the suspect, accused of killing one woman and injuring another, to the pavement and put a plastic milk crate over his head.

Raids on journalists' offices and a home in June sparked outrage.

"This would be one of the easiest drugs busts the New South Wales Police has ever made," a police official said.

The van contained methamphetamine valued at more than $140 million.

Police are negotiating with inmates and hoped the standoff could be resolved.

The raid was related to leaked military documents.

A 45-year-old man was in custody following Tuesday's shooting.

Cardinal George Pell is the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse.

A jubilant Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to get straight back to work after his conservative government's shock election victory that many didn't see coming

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied pre-election polls.

Christian beliefs rose to prominence in the last days of an election campaign.

A radio station posted an image of the microscopic error on social media.

Political parties have cut loose or chastised several of their own candidates.

Four previous trials were aborted and the fifth jury could not reach a verdict.

Khaled Khayat faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.

A candidate in Australia's looming general election has quit his anti-Muslim political party after video of him groping and propositioning dancers in a U.S. strip club was broadcast on national television

Australian police have charged a man extradited from the United States with murder in the death of a Thai national, whose body was found bound and gagged on the side of a Sydney road

Shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub has left at least two critically wounded.

May 18 appears as the most likely date for Australia's next election at which the conservative government faces an uphill battle to win a third three-year term

Sen. Fraser Anning blamed Muslim immigration for a mass shooting in New Zealand.

Australian police say a British drug suspect was thwarted in his attempt to flee the country for Papua New Guinea on a motorized personal watercraft

A documentary showed Australian politicians meeting with NRA officials.

High-profile Australian journalists face possible prison sentences after being ordered to appear in court next month for allegedly breaching a gag order on reporting about Cardinal George Pell's convictions on charges of sexually molesting two choirboys

Cyclones are frequent in Australia's tropical north and rarely claim lives.

Pell is the most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse.

Timelapse surveillance footage shows railroad tracks disappear beneath rising waters as days of rain brought major flooding to northeast Australia.

A dust storm swept across Kerang, in southeastern Australia and blanketed the landscape.

Lightning illuminates the sky over Queensland as Australia's monsoon season continues.

Officials blamed the deaths on drought but critics blamed water mismanagement.

Animals are dying as Australia faces a record-breaking heat wave.

Adelaide sweltered through a searing 46.6 degrees Celsius (115.9 Fahrenheit).

Tristan Waters is charged with helping to import cocaine worth $400 million.

Police do not consider the death suspicious

The U.S. Consulate was one of more than 10 embassies or consulates targeted with suspicious packages in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.

Over 140 residents of the Opal Tower in Sydney were forced from there homes.

Images on social media showed dented cars and broken windshields.

A crowdfunding page raised thousands for a bystander who rushed to intervene.

Australian authorities said they are treating the attack as a "terrorism incident."