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The Californian bushfires are a “preview of what can happen in Hobart”, a Tasmanian professor and one of the world’s leading ...

Tasmania is forecast to be in the centre of a three-day low-intensity heatwave starting Friday — but there’s one business ...

Tesla has updated the Model Y for 2025, adding fresh tech and improved refinement to a car that won over countless customers.

A set of identical triplets has been born at the Royal Hobart Hospital in what’s believed to be the first birth of its kind ...

A man has died after he was found with critical injuries inside a suburban home south of Newcastle in NSW. Emergency services ...

In an overflowing auditorium, the parents of a teenage boy who was swept off rocks on Christmas Eve celebrated the life of their youngest child, labelling him the “glue that held the family together”.

A ticketing system should be considered to prevent peak season overcrowding in Tasmania’s world-famous national parks says ...

A record-breaking turnout is expected for this weekend’s Cadbury Marathon. At noon Wednesday, the number of registrations sat ...

Environment Minister Madeleine Ogilvie has sung the praises of the aquaculture industry after an inspection tour of Storm Bay ...

Increases of cocaine and non-prescribed stimulant use in Tasmania have been recorded in a recent report, but drug education ...

The JackJumpers’ NBL title defence has copped another major body blow with in-form guard Sean Macdonald ruled out for the ...