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Sixteen people are dead and at least 50 injured in multiple shootings at a restaurant and bowling alley in the city of Lewiston.

At least two people have died and at least four homes have been destroyed in the area.

The Kings Park blaze, previously rated as "watch and act", was downgraded after it became contained and controlled, authorities said.

A body has been found after a bushfire ripped through Tara, in Queensland's Western Downs region.

Police are treating the stabbing death of a 65-year-old woman inside her Canberra home yesterday as murder.

A Category Five storm has never before been recorded this early in the season this side of the equator.

A cyclist has died in a collision with a ute just outside Point Pirie, 230 kilometres north-west of Adelaide.

Dylan Ramsden was driving down Victor Harbor Road at Willunga Hill about 10pm when the car he was driving collided with the truck.

Forty firefighters battled overnight to extinguish the blaze.

Two bodies have been found at a property at Riverwood in Sydney's south.

Two men have been pulled from a car trapped in floodwater at East Gippsland in Victoria.

Three homes have been lost and a person is in hospital following yesterday's bushfire on the NSW South Coast.

The 43-year-old man was rescued last night, after he got into trouble and became surrounded by rising water in Victoria's east.

Tops of well over 30 degrees are anticipated for Sydney, with hot and dry conditions across the state.

Dangerous wind gusts in Victoria this morning could make the job of firefighters even more difficult as out-of-control blazes rage.

The GoodSAM platform has finally reached New South Wales, piloted by police and ambulance in very different capacities, but with the same goal of saving lives.

The roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least nine people and injuring around 50.

A fire at a wedding in Iraq has left at least 100 people dead and 150 others injured, according to the Iraqi state news agency INA citing local authorities.

A witness called Steven told 2GB it collapsed onto the fish market building and "people were entrapped".

Firefighters couldn't save the large family's home after what's thought to be a lightning strike set it on fire.

The blaze erupted in Canterbury in the city's south-west early this morning.

It's the latest deadly extreme weather event to hit the country, which over the last few months has been grappling with severe floods as well as extreme heat waves.

More than 50 firefighters have been called to a service station blaze at Fairfield in Sydney's west.

Firefighters have rushed to a Coles in the NSW Northern Rivers region, after a car smashed its way through the store.

Reports of similar unexplained bursts of bright, dancing lights go back centuries to ancient Greece.

Australia is set to go through its worst bushfire season in four years this spring and summer, as three years of wet give way to below-average rainfall and above-average temperatures.

Mark Dickey was carried out after he fell ill 1,000 metres below the surface.

Residents in the region have been allowed to return to the area, with firefighters saying properties are no longer at risk.

A distraught Adelaide family has been working to determine if anything they own can be salvaged from a fire which ripped through their home on the weekend. 

A Sydney suburb has been left without a fire station for almost a year, raising concerns some residents may be waiting longer than usual for help to arrive.

Some famous faces have already escaped the mud-soaked festival by working kilometres out of the flooded desert.

Seventeen people have been caught up in a crash involving a mini bus in Queensland's Scenic Rim region this morning.

Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel.

A 18-year-old will front court today charged over a shooting in Wetherill Park last Friday that landed him in hospital.

Some people threw babies out of third-story windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to evacuate, witnesses said.

Hurricane Idalia has lashed Florida, whipping winds up to 145km/h, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities.

Hurricane Idalia has been linked to at least two deaths in Florida as it thrashes northern parts of the state and south Georgia – whipping winds up to 145km/h, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities.

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows.

Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company on Thursday over the fires that devastated Lahaina, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.

Survivors said they would never forget their 16-hour ordeal dangling high over a valley.

People in the area have been ordered to evacuate.

Images from the scene showed the broken structure laying on the ground, with a thick plume of dust and smoke billowing in the air.

Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya has quit after criticism that he failed to activate the island's emergency siren system

Search crews are expected to find more bodies in coming days, but the operation still has a long way to go, officials said.

The plane reportedly crashed into a car and a motorcycle, killing everyone who'd been in the air.

Identifying victims Maui wildfires will be very difficult and likely take weeks, Hawaii's governor said.

Kylee Enwright was relearning to walk and talk when she unexpectedly suffered a second catastrophic brain bleed.

A class action lawsuit has already been launched over the disaster.

Already one of the deadliest blazes in recorded US history, the extent of destruction on the Hawaiian island is still to be fully revealed.

It took emergency crews two hours to rescue Wyatt Kauffman after he slipped on a cliff and plunged at the Bright Angel Point trail.