The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A man aged in his 40s is found dead at the multi-day Panama music festival in north-east Tasmania, with organisers warning the crowd not to take any recreational drugs.

As building costs soar, some builders are seeing increased demand for smaller, cheaper homes — and for many customers, that means portable, factory-built houses.

An inquest into the death of a woman who died in floodwaters in Tasmania's north-west seven years ago has heard the State Emergency Service's (SES) regional manager for the north-west ignored his colleagues' calls to evacuate the town.

Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it’s the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which rises above the waves to form peaks that teem with penguins and other bird species, some of them…

The Tasmania JackJumpers basketball team is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer after sensationally parting ways with inaugural club boss Simon Brookhouse.

The discovery of a "shocking pest" in Devonport — the small hive beetle — is causing unease among the state's honey bee industry, with Biosecurity Tasmania urging beekeepers to remain vigilant.

A ship banned from Tasmanian waters in order to preserve "the protection of human life, marine assets and the environment" has been re-admitted, less than a year after being involved in the sinking of two tugboats.

A man jailed for the manslaughter of a seven-year-old boy in a tree-felling incident in Tasmania has appealed the severity of his sentence.

A Tasmanian artist says he has already received responses to his ad seeking an Australian of British descent to donate their "future deceased body" for an art installation whih he says will "speak to sacrifice for past sins perpetrated" against Aboriginal people.