On the eve of Tasmania's rock lobster season, two commercial fishermen are in serious hot water after police allegedly busted them with undersized and misreported catch from within marine reserves. They're facing fish trafficking charges after a complex and lengthy police...

A report claims the majority of Tasmanians approve of the border opening. Research outfit EMRS has released a community survey initiated by the state's hospitality and gambling heavyweight, the Federal Group. It states that when the survey wrapped up in early October,...

Labor and elements of the Tasmanian media are being lashed over what's being called a damaging campaign to reveal which businesses have received coronavirus hardship grants. Premier Peter Gutwein this morning labeled the push for the information on recipients of the...

An 83-year-old woman is dead after a head-on smash east of Hobart on Wednesday night.  Police were called to South Arm Road between Lauderdale and the Forest Hill Road intersection at around 8.30 pm, finding one car in the water and...

Thirty-three expeditioners heading south for the Australian Antarctic summer season are continuing to isolate in Hobart ahead of their departure date. On November 7th they will fly to Casey research station, but in the meantime they have been undertaking an online...

Mersey Community Hospital's Emergency Department will return to 24 hour operation. Since the hospital's Emergency was scaled back to 8 in the morning to 10 at night from May 31st this year, voices of disapproval have been a constant. As recently as...

Police are hunting two men after a stabbing in Hobart's north overnight. A 36-year-old resident of a Langura Avenue address in Chigwell sustained multiple stab wounds and head injuries after two men allegedly broke in around 11.30pm on Tuesday night. The victim's...

A pensioner who repeatedly raped an autistic boy at a Launceston shelter will have to serve at least four years of a six-year prison sentence. The 52-year-old, who can't be named, pleaded guilty to persistent sexual abuse of the then 13-year-old,...

Tasmania's border will open to New South Wales on Friday, November 6. Pending no major coronavirus outbreaks there, arrivals from NSW won't have to quarantine from that date.  It'll join WA, South Australia, Queensland, the NT, ACT and New Zealand in being...

There's shock for some relatives of nursing home residents at a snap announcement that a Southern Tasmanian facility is closing down. Elderly residents of Southern Cross Care's Mary's Grange home at Taroona were called into a meeting on Monday afternoon and...