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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen
Lightning strikes have started multiple bushfires and destroyed at least three homes across Victoria amid searing heatwave conditions. More than 500,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Victoria and its coastal waters over a 24-hour period from midday Sunday as bushfires forced western Victorian towns to evacuate. Three homes have been destroyed by lightning: one from a direct hit in Taylor's Lakes in Melbourne's north-west, and two others when lightning started a bushfire south of Mildura.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen |Angus Verley |Syan Vallance
Katelynn Clark felt certain her home would burn to the ground when a raging bushfire hit the edge of her rural property on Monday night. Ms Clark runs a mixed sheep and cropping farm on the northern edge of the Little Desert National Park in western Victoria where a fast-moving blaze this week destroyed more than 63,000 hectares of land.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Callum Marshall |Eden Hynninen
Police have recovered the bodies of two people from inland rivers in Victoria and NSW. Emergency services were called to the Murray River at Barooga, NSW at 12.30pm on Friday after reports of a man having difficulty in the water at the end of Micks Beach Road. The body of a 23-year-old man was located in nearby waters about 11.45am on Saturday after a search involving emergency services from NSW and Victoria.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen |Alexander Darling
Fire has destroyed one Moyston farmer's house, but the fencing, sheds, and 350 sheep and 50 cattle were spared. No lives have been lost in the Grampians bushfire, but more than 76,000 hectares of land have been burned. BlazeAid has set up a station nearby to help farmers rebuild destroyed fences. Kim Marshall's heart sank the minute she laid eyes on the charred remains of her family home.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Eden Hynninen
A wildlife ecologist says it will take up to 20 years to recover what has been lost in one of the "most biologically important landscapes in Victoria", as a blaze of more than 76,000 hectares continues to burn through the Grampians National Park. The area of the bushfire is currently larger than Singapore, and the flames have destroyed a number of homes, outbuildings, and sheds in the Moyston area.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Olivia Sanders |Eden Hynninen
Residents across the Grampians, in Victoria's west, are bracing themselves for extreme fire conditions in the days after Christmas. Temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-40s across Victoria on Boxing Day, with fire conditions across the state expected to mirror that of the 2019/20 bushfires. On the southern edge of the Grampians National Park, Dunkeld resident Mary Ann Brown said the community was on edge ahead of Boxing Day.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Eden Hynninen |Jean Bell |Laura Mayers
A fire in the Grampians National Park has ripped through almost 8,000 hectares of bushland after it was started by lightning on Monday. The fire grew from 500 hectares to 5,000 hectares in just 24 hours on Thursday. Today, a watch-and-act alert remains in place for the Jimmy Creek, Mirranatwa, Bornes Hill, Grampians, and Victoria Valley areas.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Eden Hynninen
A preliminary Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report into a fatal plane crash in Parwan has revealed it was a "gusty and windy" day. Jack Miller, 20, died shortly after take-off after the Cessna 150 light aircraft crashed into a paddock near the Bacchus Marsh aerodrome on October 22. ATSB examined the wreckage and found no evidence of pre-impact defects with the flights controls or structure. Their investigation continues.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Laura Mayers |Eden Hynninen
A fire near Creswick, north of Ballarat, remains under advice level today after ripping through nearly 200 hectares of state forest yesterday. Meanwhile, a new bushfire is burning out of control in the Hotspur State Forest, north of Portland in the state's far south west. A watch and act warning has been issued for the fire and water bombing aircraft are being used to try to stop its spread.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Miles |Eden Hynninen |Daniel Franklin
For generations, words like fat, obese and overweight have been thrown around like hand grenades. In medical settings, the damage dealt can last generations — and the victims are overwhelmingly female. Hannah put up with the pain in her stomach for as long as humanly possible. But after 12 months of agony she finally relented and went to her doctor for help. It's something she rarely does. Not out of pride or stubbornness, but fear.
