The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A woman taking part in a fly fishing competition in northern Tasmania has been rescued after having a limb trapped for several hours between rocks.

Tasmania Police's power to issue final family violence orders is exacerbating the problem of victim misidentification, experts say, making it difficult to correct cases where officers have made the wrong call and upending the lives of potentially hundreds of women every year.

In 1997, Tasmania became the last Australian state to decriminalise sex between men, and one activist believes that enduring homophobia can be directly traced to the penal colonies of the island's past.

An inquest into the death of a 75-year-old Tasmanian woman who drowned in her Latrobe home in 2016 has heard family members made desperate calls to the SES and police prior to her death.

In an Australian first, the Tasmanian government is giving pharmacists the power to provide some medications for a month without a new prescription, in the hope of taking pressure off GPs.

Sheffield Shield leaders Western Australia trail by just 112 runs with nine wickets in hand after a poor day one by the visiting Tasmania.

Josef Chromy wines have been bottled in their home state for years. Now a multi-million-dollar expansion plan will see it move to South Australia.

A Tasmanian devil in the state's northwest has been found with a deadly facial tumour disease in an area thought to be free of the cancer.

A Tasmanian devil has tested positive to the devil facial tumour disease in part of north-west Tasmania previously thought to be disease-free.