The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Tasmanian and Victorian renewable energy projects have been fast-tracked with additional funding in an attempt to lower power prices for consumers.

Cat-owning residents who want to live in this new suburban housing development will have to prove to the local council their pets won't roam nearby bushland, where an endangered bird species lives — and while bird watchers have welcomed the rule, one expert doubts it will be enforceable.

Tasmania are 0-104 in their chase of 234 to defeat South Australia in the Sheffield Shield game in Adelaide.

For most of Australia’s human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia’s mainland was connected to Papua New Guinea and Tasmania as part of a larger landmass called “Sahul”.

A prolonged rain event across eastern Australia is likely to cause flooding rain from central Queensland to Tasmania this week. Here's a breakdown of what it could look like.

Tasmania's Catholic archbishop agrees to change a planned reading at a graduation mass after a backlash on social media, and concerns it would be inappropriate.

Thousands of people have been displaced by floodwaters across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales as they move downstream, and the clean-up is beginning.

With the floods of 2016 a not-so-distant memory for many in Tasmania, the latest heavy rains have brought a new round of heartache and devastation. Here is a look at the event in pictures.

Tasmanian opener Tim Ward has hit a Sheffield Shield half-century against South Australia in Adelaide.