The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Erebus' Will Brown has avoided several crashes in Tasmania to secure an important win at Symmons Plains.

The two contenders, who came into the weekend first and second in the standings, were hit early in the race, both Kostecki and Mostert caught up in adjacent, but seperate, incidents.

The pre-event briefing featured a heated discussion regarding racing etiquette off the back of the Perth SuperSprint earlier this month.

Eight days after defecting and plunging Tasmania's Liberal government into minority, two rogue MPs say they'll vote with the party to guarantee supply — but Hobart's AFL stadium, at the centre of their quarrel, will now face scrutiny by an upper house the government doesn't control.

Two former Liberal MPs who quit the Tasmanian party last week over a divisive stadium project say a new deal struck is a win for transparency.

Tasmania's native bees aren't as notorious as the Tassie devil or the swift parrot. But these tiny, unassuming and strangely beguiling bugs are incredibly important to the state's forests and fields.

The state's construction industry has expressed surprise and concern at the Burnie figures, especially as the city has traditionally been the economic centre of the north-west coast.

Low single-digit temperatures greeted the field for the first of two half-hour practice sessions at the Launceston circuit.

The circuit, located on the outskirts of Launceston in island's north, will host three sprint races.

This chef vows he'll never serve it, while a local in a rural community says she is "sick of people coming from Hobart telling us we're unhappy with fish farms" — why is the salmon industry so divisive in Tasmania?

The capsizing of the vessel in 1973 led to a remarkable story of survival and changed Australian maritime laws