The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

At its height, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted well-established patterns of migration within Australia. Reports of a regional renaissance suggested city dwellers were moving to regional areas in droves. The governments of Tasmania, South Australia and the Northern Territory were also keen to promote new migration flows to reverse long-standing declines…

Tasmania's minority Liberal government is under increasing pressure in relation to releasing departmental advice about controversial plans for a stadium.

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

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.

In 1805 black swans, kangaroos, and the world's last King Island emu lived amongst the sweeping lawns of the Château de Malmaison in Paris. So how did this creature make it to an empress' garden?

Mum-of-four Bobbi-Lee Ketchell, 34, says she has barely been able to sleep or eat since her daughter Shyanne-Lee, 14, went missing

Edith Emery's life reads like something from a Hollywood movie script — a successful career as a doctor cut short by Hitler's invasion of Austria, a long-distance romance that landed her in a prisoner of war camp, and her final chapter, breaking new ground in Tasmania.

A local business in Tasmania began mowing lawns free of charge after noticing a lot of clients simply couldn't afford their services — for Stacey Gaspero, it may just have saved her from being evicted.