The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

An environmental war is waging again in Tasmania as a clean energy company fights to save its $1.6-billion wind farm project, while opponents say "half-baked" EPA conditions don't go far enough.

A housing development on Hobart's eastern shore, described by council as "likely the most significant development in Australia", has hit a major hurdle but could still proceed with help from the state's planning minister.

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.

Western Australia have claimed a crushing three-day win over Tasmania to again secure Sheffield Shield final hosting rights.

The Migrant Resource Centre has been helping Tasmania's newest arrivals for 40 years, but its work is rapidly evolving. Helping migrants living with a disability through the NDIS is becoming a large part of what the organisation does.

A Tasmanian woolgrower's radical move to stop selling older sheep for slaughter has delivered an unexpected bonus: a New York ethical fashion retailer is paying double for her superfine wool.

Western Australia have taken an 85-run lead over Tasmania in their Sheffield Shield clash, thanks to Sam Whiteman and the returning Mitch Marsh.

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.