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A day of record-breaking heat looms for Victoria, with temperatures forecast to hit 49C in the Mallee and Melbourne facing its hottest day since Black Saturday…

The bushfire threat in Victoria has eased, with no emergency warnings in place for the first time in almost a week, as the state and federal…

Australian authorities are assessing the damage after one of the worst heatwaves in years resulted in bushfires igniting across the country’s south-east, with hundreds of homes…

Jacinta Allan says firefighters facing ‘another difficult day’The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, said the state was facing “another difficult day”, with thousands of firefighters and emergency…

Victoria’s Hume highway has closed, regional trains have been cancelled and firefighters from at least two states are battling blazes in the worst heatwave to descend…