The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Tasmania is only about the size of Ireland, but it packs in an awful lot of scenery, said James Stewart in The Daily Telegraph. The east coast is “scalloped by astonishing beaches and lapped by sea the colour of kingfishers”; the west is “like Scotland on steroids”; and the land…

The federal government plans to triple the size of Macquarie Island Marine Park, home to vast congregations of wildlife living between Tasmania and Antarctica.

The neighbour of a Tasmanian woman who starved to death in her own home says the 71-year-old was let down by those who should have stepped in to help her.

Australian comedy duo Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney are behind this dark and funny series about a series of murders in a small Tasmanian town

When this town's residents need to collect the post or the bread, they go to the local pharmacy.

A woman's "lonely death" of starvation in the suburbs of an Australian capital city raised "several issues", including with police inaction, a Tasmanian coroner has said.

"Ever since potatoes emerged . . . growers have battled the threat of soil-borne fungal and bacterial diseases"

A popular breeder in Tasmania's north has been charged with over-breeding its female dogs, with one dog allegedly having six litters in just under two years.

Winter in Tasmania is not all snow-capped mountains and teeth-chattering frosts. The coldest season brings all kinds of possible weather around the island state.