The Latest Breaking News from Hobart

Two psychiatrists say they will have no choice but to close their practices when a Hobart private mental health hospital stops operating next month — cutting loose thousands of patients in an already stretched system.

A proposed new health and wellbeing precinct in Hobart's New Town will include mental health, palliative care and an eating disorder clinic. But there are concerns about the number of inpatient beds to be provided.

An AFL team and millions of dollars ride on the Hobart stadium plan, but will the parliamentary process stop it in it's tracks?

Tasmania's AFL licence contract is released, showing the government will be penalised $4.5 million if the stadium build runs late – and another $4.5 million if the arena is not ready to host games by 2028.

The Tasmanian government has released details of its deal with the AFL to fund a new stadium in Hobart to house the league's 19th team.

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.

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?

Hobart has seen a big jump in the number of properties on the rental market in the past year, but the reasons are unclear and many properties are still unaffordable.

Contractors fear they will see as little as five cents in the dollar after a building company collapses in Hobart, leaving contracts for half-built homes torn up.