Beaconsfield mine rescue continues to defy belief two decades on
Brant Webb is cracking jokes and taking photos with star-struck tourists from the mainland. Standing only metres away…
Invasive long-spined sea urchin found on Tasmania’s west coast sparks fears for marine habitat
The discovery of a long-spined sea urchin on Tasmania’s remote west coast has signalled a critical new expansion…
Wildcard Taylah Preston wins first Grand Slam match, vs Zhang Shuai, played ITF 35s with no crowds, $225k prize for second round, press conference, latest news
Taylah Preston’s road to a first grand slam victory has been more unconventional than most at her young…
One young Tassie woman’s battle with OCD
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Mental Health beds at Hobart’s Peacock Centre have been closed due to a rat infestation
A 12-bed public mental health facility in southern Tasmania has been closed while it addresses a rat infestation.…
Tasmanian private mental health service The Hobart Clinic reopens after 17-day closure
The last large-scale private mental health hospital in Tasmania’s south has reopened after a 17-day closure, with the…
How to tell if a book is valuable
Are you a book lover? Do you have a teetering tower of tomes on your bedside table? Maybe…
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…
Fears for endangered Tasmanian crayfish species after ‘unauthorised’ earthworks
A creek in northern Tasmanian known to be home to the endangered giant freshwater crayfish has sustained “serious…
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…
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…