Tasmania’s Lake St Clair confirmed as Australia’s deepest with 3D mapping technology
Researchers from Australia’s national science agency have measured Tasmania’s Lake St Clair with high-resolution detail, creating a 3D-map…
Op shop purchase of The Hobbit could be worth tens of thousands if verified as first edition Tolkien
A Tasmanian woman is trying to sell what she says is a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien’s The…
Only private mental health clinic in southern Tas could close
The only private mental health clinic in southern Tasmania could be shut at the end of the month…
Hospital in the Home program helping young man with agoraphobia who ‘cut himself off from the world’
Tom French went from being a teenager who loved the outdoors to a young adult who could not…
Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina ‘makes contact with ocean floor’ near remote Heard Island
Australia’s icebreaker has been involved in an incident in which the ship’s hull “made contact with the ocean…
Tasracing sacks chief thoroughbred steward for ‘conduct-related matters’ days into employment
Tasracing has sacked its newly appointed chief thoroughbred steward for “conduct-related matters” that occurred just days into their…
Calls to reform Australia’s pension age as labourers consider early retirement due to injury
In Australia, the pension age was lifted from 65 to 67 in 2023. For some manual workers, it’s…
David Jenkins murder trial hears from co-accused who says he was unaware victim had been stabbed
A Tasmanian man on trial for murder has told a court he “attacked” and swore at his brother,…
Teenager pleads guilty to manslaughter over Hobart waterfront drowning
A teenager who shoved two people on Hobart’s waterfront into the river, resulting in a man’s drowning death,…
Potato mop-top virus ‘impossible’ to eradicate, Biosecurity Tasmania says as ninth incursion detected
Potato mop-top virus is here to stay and its source is unlikely to ever be discovered, Biosecurity Tasmania…