The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

The NSW bushfires coronial inquiry is looking into the cause of a major Black Summer bushfire that destroyed 10 homes in the state's central west.

The NSW bushfires coronial inquiry has heard sparks from a welder started a major Black Summer bushfire.

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

After the 2019 drought and Black Summer bushfires, a group of farmers in the Canberra region decided to do things differently. And they have formed a community along the way.

Amid a bumper snow season, operators face rising insurance costs of up to 800 per cent as a result of the Black Summer bushfires, which burnt through around 187,000 hectares of the alpine area.

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.

Researchers were thrilled to discover several threatened native species are on the rebound after the Black Summer bushfires

Survivors of the Black Summer bushfires feel they've been left out of the national conversation during the federal election campaign as they continue battling trauma.

Ruth Haggar discovered her home was under-insured when she lost it in the Black Summer bushfires and can't understand why politicians are "not speaking up" this federal election.