The Legislative Council is being urged to put politics aside and focus on the evidence ahead of the pill testing debate this week. Tomorrow, Independent member for Murchison, Ruth Forrest will bring forth a motion calling on the Legislative Council to...

Two kelpies from Tasmania are among a dozen from around the country vying for the title of the nation's hardest-working dog. Lady from Epping Forrest and Monty from Paradise are joining the others in the Cobber Challenge; they've been fitted with...

Regional Tasmania will be boosted by the employment of 12 new paramedics. Three will be posted each to Dodges Ferry, Bicheno, St Helens and Deloraine. "As part of our $125 million investment over six years, Ambulance Tasmania has already successfully recruited three...

While the mainland's feeling the worst effects of an icy blast moving up through south-east Australia, Tasmania's weather isn't faring much better. The low pressure system is moving away to the north-east, meaning conditions should start to ease through this afternoon...

Devonport's leaders remain satisfied the massive Living City transformation will deliver renewed prosperity to the region. An auction business owner reckons he moved his operation from Devonport to Launceston, because the project didn't provide an up-tick in business in the CBD. ...

There are fears Tasmania's isolated areas are completely exposed to the risk of bushfire, after all remote firefighting operations were suspended pending a work, health and safety inquiry. The Tasmania Fire Service has been deemed to have not provided enough safeguards...

The Southern Huskies have pulled the plug on the New Zealand NBL, leaving the competition after just one season. In a bombshell statement released this afternoon, the clubs says after investing $1.7 million dollars into the market, the relationship with Basketball...

A fire has done around $20,000 damage to a vacant public housing property on Hobart's eastern shore early on Friday.  Crews were called to the vacant home on Mockridge Road at Clarendon Vale around 2:20 and extinguished a small blaze in the kitchen. Police...

Tasmania's bushfire fighting shortcomings are cropping up in a new independent report on the brutal last season. It's found the early response to what developed into the Riveaux Road blaze wasn't 'hard and fast', an approach and phrase often bandied about...

Tasmanian students have the opportunity to name their very own wind turbine at a wind farm in the state's Central Plateau. Aurora Energy is launching a state-wide competition to name the 48 wind turbines at Cattle Hill Wind Farm to coincide with...