A WA beekeeper says around three million bees across 50 hives — and more than a tonne of honey — have been incinerated in an emergency-level bushfire east of Perth.
Caleb Runciman
A bushfire in the Perth Hills has been downgraded from an emergency to a watch and act level as firefighters continue to battle the blaze.
Chloe Maher
The bushfire threat was reduced for Albany’s northern suburbs on Monday, after a fire sparked in Walmsley in the early hours of Sunday morning was brought under control.
Melissa Sheil
An impartial and independent review of government fire policies is well overdue, and changes required are about a lot more than fighting fire with fire, writes Fire Forums convenor Dr Carole Peters.
Dr Carole Peters
A WA mine has donated $120,000 to two Wheatbelt shires that faced several multi-day blazes that resulted in infrastructure and crop damage, Christmas Day evacuations and a highway closure.
Hannah Whitehead
The bushfire has been downgraded to an advice level but it is not yet contained or controlled.
Evacuation warnings for Ellenbrook have been lifted but an advice order remains.
Tegwen Bescoby
Firefighters were dispatched to the scene, where they managed to bring the fire down to an advice level.
A bushfire in WA’s south has been downgraded after threatening lives and homes in Millbridge and Waterloo in the Dardanup Shire near Bunbury.
Katherine Kraayvanger
Great Southern firefighter Chris Slade was among dozens of Australian crews who were deployed to Victoria earlier this year to help protect communities threatened by the catastrophic bushfires.
Amy Towers
Six volunteer bushfire brigades from across the Great Southern have received grants to help improve their services.
A bushfire near Bunbury has been downgraded to a watch and act level but a possible threat to lives and homes remains.
Back-burning is an essential tool in fighting large out-of-control fires, says longtime fire and environmental manager Greg Mair.
Greg Mair
Firefighters have contained the bushfire after people in the warning zone were told to act immediately to survive.
Firefighters have extinguished an out-of-control fire that was blazing through a paddock on Tindale Road in Kentdale, west of Denmark, and sparked a bushfire advice warning on Tuesday afternoon.
A bushfire in Edgewater and Joondalup has been downgraded this afternoon after a bushfire watch and act was issued for the suburbs in Perth’s north, next to Edith Cowan University and Lake Joondalup.
Calls for a closer look at fire management in Fitzgerald River National Park are growing, with a local conservation group pushing for an independent review of January’s bushfire.
A bushfire threat for people in the Shire of Mt Barker has been downgraded and a section of Albany Highway reopened, after crews contained a blaze that started on Wednesday afternoon.
Jacki Elezovich
Black cockatoo chicks have been found alive sheltering in tree hollows Fitzgerald River National Park, a rare bright spot amongst the habitat devastation caused by the recent bushfire.
A fire raging in Darlington, Helena Valley, and Boya has been downgraded to a watch and act, with a possible threat to lives and homes.
A bushfire watch and act has been issued for people living in an area of Forest Grove, less than 15 kilometres south of Margaret River.
Volunteer and career firefighters have been praised for their efforts in protecting lives and homes across a series of uncontrolled bushfires that threatened communities near Crossman last month.
‘Stay alert for potential dangers such as smoke and fallen trees and power poles.’
Jessica Evensen
Authorities confirmed there was no threat to lives or homes, but urged residents to watch for signs of a bushfire.
