February
CFMEU organiser’s ute firebombed
A CFMEU organiser’s union car was firebombed in the middle of the night just three months after his house was vandalised with the words ‘CFMEU dog’.
June 2024
Prepare for yet another big EV adoption hurdle
Apartment owners and strata managers are unprepared for the costs and complications of securing building insurance for blocks with electric vehicle owners and charging facilities.
May 2023
Tight exclusion zone remains after massive Sydney blaze
A badly damaged section of the inner Sydney building mostly destroyed by fire moved 70mm overnight as police and specialist firefighters warn it could collapse at any moment.
Sydney CBD building engulfed ‘in gush of fire’
A Surry Hills building has been gutted by a large fire, casting a huge pall of dark smoke across the city as onlookers watched parts of the building collapse.
September 2020
Overhaul 'ad-hoc' aerial firefighting system: pilots
The government is facing increasing pressure to upgrade national aerial firefighting capabilities before the summer.
May 2020
Ten injured after car ploughs into shop in Sydney's west
Police are investigating the actions of a driver whose car ploughed into a store selling hijabs but there are no indications it is terror related.
January 2020
Banks pledge support for bushfire victims
Banks have pledged tens of millions in mortgage relief measures for borrowers whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the fires.
Fires hammer bolthole bliss in ritzy Southern Highlands
It took former Australian rugby international Anthony Abrahams five years to rebuild the barn on his rural NSW bolthole and only minutes for it to be destroyed.
Firefighters rush to contain blazes as they farewell one of their own
Firefighters are rushing to use a break from warm weather to work on bushfire containment strategies before conditions worsen again at the end of this week.
November 2019
NSW, Qld fires: Resources stretched to the limit
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed to go it alone on purchasing a new water bombing plane if the federal government does not allocate more resources to fight bushfires across the country.
NSW, Qld bushfires: NSW braces for catastrophic fire risks, 'dire forecast' unchanged
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Tuesday morning said Monday's dire forecast had not changed and told residents to heed the warnings authorities and head for safety.
'Lives will be at risk': fire warning for Tuesday
Firefighters are desperately trying to control devastating bushfires across NSW before a "dangerous day" of weather forecast for Tuesday with the Rural Fire Service warning "lives will be at risk".
Tributes for three victims killed in NSW fires
All three people who died in unprecedented bushfires NSW have been identified, while all those feared missing have been accounted for.