The heatwave gripping Queensland is set to intensify today before a cooler change sweeps through in time for the Australia Day long weekend.

Authorities are warning residents to stay alert of changing dangerous weather conditions across the long weekend.

Lightning, wind and driving rain have wreaked havoc in northern NSW, felling trees, cutting off roads and properties and ...

Emergency services are bracing for a “perfect storm” this Australia Day long weekend, with double demerits coming into effect on Friday for millions of motorists.

The Bureau of Meteorology advises an upper trough is combining with a moist and unstable airmass to produce severe thunderstorms through parts of northeast NSW this morning. Severe thunderstorms are ...