I could quote the statistics – 18,600,000 hectares burned, 5,900 buildings destroyed, 34 lives lost, 1,000,000,000 animals killed. I could tell you about better building practices – strengthened BAL40 guidelines, a revised National Construction Code, new and improved...

Residents whose homes were burnt when a backburn lit by the Rural Fire Service at Mt Wilson got out of control have failed in a bid for more details on an internal report into the incident. The Mt Wilson RFS Backburn Survivors Group sought information on the report...

Drivers along Bells Line of Road can’t miss it. East Bilpin resident Martin Tebbutt a 50-year Bilpin property owner erected it after becoming angry at the removal of street trees he planted and had nurtured for the past two years. The Tebbutt property, along with many...