The captain of the Licola Country Fire Authority (CFA), Ralph Barraclough, has defended the way Southern Rural Water managed flows from Glenmaggie Weir during the floods in south-east Victoria. At the ...

UPDATE: LICOLA residents are bracing for an attack from bushfires as winds push the fire front toward the remote town. The CFA re-issued an emergency warning for the town just before 7pm, saying the ...

ONE of Victoria's most isolated communities will not leave if fire hits. They will stay and defend despite evacuation warnings. Diehard residents of Licola, about 250km east of Melbourne, will stay ...

♦ A bushfire about 48,000 hectares in size is still expected to affect the town of Licola, about 254 kilometres east of Melbourne, where 10 people are gathered with no escape. ♦ The fire threat has ...

The fire has passed. Now what do you do? The fire may have passed and the warning downgraded, but you still need to take care and be vigilant. Here are some steps you can take to help you recover.

An 80-year-old man perished in his car in the driveway of a home in the Gippsland town of Seaton yesterday - the state's worst bushfire day since Black Saturday. Victorians are today bracing to fight ...

Benign weather overnight has slowed the 50,000-hectare fire with the main concern now Licola, which has been cut off and where about 10 residents and 30 firefighters remain. The fire, which has ...