The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Set in a vividly captured Tasmania, Arnott’s third book describes one man’s life with a sense of beauty, serious and quiet

Tasmania's minister for sport Nic Street expects AFL club presidents to provide the league with a very positive view of the island state's bid for a licence.

Tim Paine will make his first-class cricketing return in Brisbane, with his Tasmania side sent in to bat against Queensland at Allan Border Field.

There are growing calls for Tasmania's court security to be beefed up after the alleged assault of a police officer and the successful escape of a man shortly after he was sentenced to jail.

Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts…

Lawn bowls great Rebecca Van Asch announces her retirement from competition to spend more time with her family after a glittering, 18-year international career.

Five people are on trial over the alleged murder of a 23-year-old Tasmanian man who was struck in the leg with a sword during an altercation.

From time to time, the "for sale" sign will go up on an island off the coast of Tasmania. So who is buying them and is it all that it's cracked up to be?

Report commissioned by Wave Swell Energy says the machines would make a future clean electricity grid more stable and more reliable

Tim Paine gets ready for a return to first-class cricket, playing for Tasmania in the team's Sheffield Shield opener against the Bulls on Thursday.

With the La Niña wet season wasting no time inundating the country with water, state emergency services say now is the time to prepare for flooding.