The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

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…

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.

Five people are on trial in Tasmania accused of murdering a 23-year-old man using a sword, following disputes sparked by a social media message.

A Tasmanian coroner has received a large volume of evidence as part of a probe into how six Hillcrest Primary School students died in a jumping castle accident.

Australia's former Test captain Tim Paine will make his comeback to elite cricket in Tasmania's Sheffield Shield game against Queensland in Brisbane.

Choppy weather conditions are being examined as a possible cause of a boat accident in Tasmania, which left one man dead and a woman in hospital.

Susan Neill-Fraser, one of Tasmania's most high-profile murderers, leaves prison after 13 years behind bars over the death of her partner in 2009.