The Latest Breaking News from Hobart

Tim Seidenspinner had lived in a room at a former backpackers hostel in Hobart for two years when he received an email out of the blue, telling him his rent would be more than doubling. And he's not the only one.

A Victorian man breaks down in tears at Hobart's Supreme Court after a jury unanimously finds him guilty of the manslaughter of 7-year-old Akira Carroll.

Clutching a teddy bear, the mother of a seven-year-old boy who died after a tree fell on him tells a manslaughter trial she "heard the tree crash" and saw it hit her son during a wood-cutting trip near Hobart in 2015.

As a child, Favel Parrett was devastated when the Danish polar explorer Nella Dan was scuttled. As an adult, she brought it back to life

As more and more people struggle to make ends meet and face homelessness, there is a call for more money to provide shelters.

After a fight lasting many decades, another rejection from the AFL might see Tasmania beaten once and for all.

Tasmania's capital is growing and is predicted to have an extra 60,000 people by 2050. But a new 30-year-plan to deal with them makes a few key assumptions — about Hobart's traffic and public transport and where these people will live.

This doctors clinic is to close on September 23, meaning its active patient list of 3,000 will need to travel elsewhere for care — and that is very bad news for this mum and her kids.

Tasmania Police announces an independent review after it was revealed officers secretly recorded private and legally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients at Risdon Prison for months while trying to make a case against convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser's lawyer.

Whether or not a company planning to build a cable car up Hobart's mountain has done enough to address a raft of complaints by opponents is being argued in a planning tribunal — and anyone hoping the issue will be resolved once and for all is likely to be disappointed.

Just like the platypus, the extinct Tasmanian tiger glows under black light, adding to our early understanding of how animals communicate with their fur.