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Another week, another cold front brings catastrophic fire danger. New South Wales could see a spike in heat today but this week's focus is South Australia. When will it end?

Traffic congestion and a lack of infrastructure become make-or-break issues as a surging population sees Brisbane and the Gold Coast joined by a corridor of constant development.

Queensland's combined dam level capacity falls to 60 per cent in the south-east of the state for the first time in 11 years, as the first phase of the drought-response plan for the region is implemented.

Cape Town showed how quickly reputational damage could be self-inflicted, so in light of recent incidents, Australian cricket needs to remind itself of where the line is.

Two days before, they were fearing bushfires. Now farmers on the Sunshine Coast are counting the cost of a hailstorm that hammered their crops with enormous chunks of ice.

Volunteer firies and landholders say calls for back-burning during the bushfire emergency are met with red tape, making their ability to fight flames on the frontline "impossible" as they have to "sit and wait" for the fire front to come.

A woman who killed a mother-of-two before burning her body on the side of a dirt road and later making "sick jokes" about her death is jailed for more than 10 years.

KISS may have cancelled their Australian tour last week, but there's one concert they stuck with.

It's described as the world's largest orgasm — the annual mass spawning of coral on the Great Barrier Reef. This year, scientists speed up the natural process with a project known as 'IVF for the reef'.

The Insurance Council of Australia declares Sunday's hail storm on the Sunshine Coast a "catastrophe" with the damage bill hitting more than $40 million.

A man who shot at a police officer in an underground car park on the Gold Coast more than two years ago is sentenced to nine years in jail.

John Archer says his family was torn apart after a psychologist wrongly labelled him "psychopathic" in a report to the family court. The psychologist was found guilty of professional misconduct but John says the disciplinary action comes too late after he lost all contact with his son.

When visiting the Taylor family's property you now pass long rows of charred mango trees, arriving at a house that was damaged, but not lost, to the flames.

Shanna Whan was a high-functioning alcoholic, a professional by day and a mess by night. Five years sober, she wants others to know it's OK to say no to a beer.

Fire authorities believe homes have been lost in a major bushfire raging in the Pechey area, as they issue an emergency warning for residents in Crows Nest to leave immediately as the unpredictable blaze moves towards the town.