The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A music festival this weekend celebrates a much-loved Tasmanian bush pub with a colourful, sometimes tragic, history.

Overworked, enduring nightmares of dead bodies, self-medicating with alcohol and other drugs, with the help from well-meaning colleagues in some cases doing more harm than good: An inquest examining the suicides of four police officers in four years has laid bare the torment members can face.

A wind farm proposal in Tasmania is given the green light — but under the condition it doesn't operate for five months of the year, so as not to interfere with the annual migration of a parrot species.

The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is urging customers who bought restricted poppy seeds from its gift shop to return them, after realising it was selling the prohibited product following recent raids on a Hobart flower farm.

A Tasmanian man who fell and broke his leg while walking his dog wins his worker's compensation claim, after a court ruled it happened in the course of his employment as he was on-call at the time.

There are fears a proposed change by Tasmania's veterinary board will leave some areas without options for after-hours pet care, and put an extra burden on staff who are already at their limit.

The daughter of a 90-year-old woman who died after her wheelchair rolled away and toppled over had moments earlier told a taxi driver of her concerns about a steep sloping car park, a coroner says.

The skeleton and skin of what is believed to be the last Tasmanian tiger have been stashed away in a cupboard at a museum in Tasmania, where experts lost track of the bizarre looking creature.

A 29-year-old German man is sentenced to five years' jail over the death of a sex worker on Boxing Day 2020 in Tasmania. Warning: This story contains details of strangulation.