The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Nearly 100 years after its extinction, scientists say thylacines may once live again, after a ‘‘giant leap’’ in a project to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger.

An engineer who modelled the conditions horses would have experienced on a Spirit of Tasmania journey in 2018 tells a court the temperature meant they were "going to cook".

Wednesday: There is a growing chorus for parliament’s powerful privileges committee to investigate Scott Morrison’s handful of secret ministries. Plus: the Texans working to bring back the woolly mammoth say we’ll soon have new Tasmanian tigers

An Australian team say a new partnership with a US-based tech company has given their hopes of a successful "de-extinction" of thylacines a "giant leap" — and that their goal of seeing a Tasmanian tiger in the wild could happen "within 10 years".

University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine

Conservationists have raised issues about the history of a Canadian company putting in a $1.1 billion bid to take over Tasmanian salmon farmer Tassal.

These unassuming Canadians have just offered $1.1 billion to take over Tasmania's last locally owned salmon producer, turning the company private — in a move that has some worried for the environment and accountability.

Tuesday: Scott Morrison’s use of extraordinary ministerial powers to block a controversial gas project faces a legal challenge. Plus: a survey of homes has found which states are too humid and too cold

There is a palpable sense of relief for many in Tasmania's Aboriginal community over the decision to remove a 133-year-old statue of a man accused of mutilating a deceased Aboriginal man, but one historian says there are other monuments to men who did far worse — just metres away.

Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds

Surgeon and later Tasmanian premier William Crowther snuck into a morgue and stole the head of Indigenous man William Lanne. Now, Hobart's council will vote tonight on whether his prominent city-centre statue should be torn down.