More than 4,770 dry lightning strikes have occurred near or over Tasmania with 1,227 recorded as striking ground since Monday afternoon, sparking multiple fires, some within remote national parks ...

The Tasmania Fire Service is planning for a "longer-duration fire event" as they fight several bushfires with "challenging" weather conditions, including hot weather and little rainfall, forecast ...

As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, researchers are raising the possibility that this is the 'new normal'.

Arsonists were responsible for nearly 500 deliberately lit fires across Tasmania last year, it has has revealed, and authorities have had enough, with the blazes costing the state bucketloads and ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. Scotchtown resident Brendan Costello shared some photos of the hail, telling the Mercury a storm passed ...

Hail and thunderstorms have lashed parts of Tasmania as lightning strikes spark a number of fires in the northwest, causing tens of thousands of homes to lose power.

Tasmania weather: Hail storms and lightning strikes start fires in northwest. The boss of TasNetworks has warned of further power outages overnight, with 100+ transformers hit by lightning and ...

Tasmania Fire Service acting chief officer Jeremy Smith said the fire, which has so far burned through 120 hectares, was contained, but difficult to fully extinguish.

Tasmania Fire Services crews from Hobart and Glenorchy attended the property on Tolosa Rd just before 6.00am. Upon arrival, the fire in the 6m x 7m shed, which contained a vehicle, ...