Disaster and Emergency Response

Port Pirie residents and businesses are picking up the pieces after record-breaking thunderstorms hit town over the weekend.

The United Firefighters Union has asked the national rail safety authority to investigate the validity of a permit to run services in Melbourne's Metro Tunnel, which will begin running passenger services on Sunday.

As a new week begins for Top End residents still recovering from the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Fina, questions remain for many about what happens next.

A decade on from bushfires that claimed four lives, this community says not enough has been done to ensure they are safe.

Police say 21 people have been killed in a landslide in Papua New Guinea's highlands overnight, with bodies still being recovered.

A body, believed to be that of missing bushwalker Daryl Fong, has been found after more than a week of searching in Mount Field National Park.

Dry winter conditions have resulted in extra fuel reduction burns in regional Victoria ahead of the fire season. But some scientists are asking if fuel burns are the best way to reduce fire risk. 

Fire authorities warn of above average fire season in NSW despite previous modelling showing a wet summer.

Families speak of loss, trauma on final day of the coronial inquest into the deaths of Les Vugec and Diane Smith. 

A coroner has expressed "horror" at the lack of modern river gauge infrastructure around the NSW inland community of Eugowra three years after it was smashed by record-breaking floods.

The third day of an inquest into two deaths during the 2022 Eugowra flood hears of concerns raised within the SES about the accuracy of weather bureau warnings. 

A Eugowra resident tells an inquest into deadly flooding how she put her six-day-old granddaughter in a roof cavity after a wave of water hit the Central West town, killing two people. 

A coronial inquest is told residents and emergency responders got inaccurate information from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and Water NSW during a devastating flood that claimed two lives in the NSW town of Eugowra. 

Parts of the state are still reeling from last season's flooding, storms and rainfall, with the majority of council areas disaster-declared already.

Villagers have joined rescue crews in attempting to save those who have become stuck in heavy snow on Mount Everest in Tibet.

The number of people killed in the disaster could still rise, with some half a dozen children still unaccounted for.

The number of students confirmed dead after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Indonesia has risen to 50, the country's search and rescue agency says.

Tasmania's wild places continue to captivate travellers, but experts say it is easy to underestimate how quickly a sunny day can flip to life-threatening conditions. One SES rescuer shares his advice for staying safe in the wilderness.

As recovery efforts continue, some parents have argued with emergency services, demanding they speed up their work so they can bury their loved ones.

A COVID outbreak that "spread quickly" through a cramped fire management headquarters was just one issue faced during the response to Tasmania's west coast fires last summer, a review finds.