The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

After a mild winter with higher-than-average maximum and minimum temperatures, spring in Tasmania is set to follow the same trend, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

Price five times more than estimate as A4 sheet bought by Tasmanian museum

Australians watched in horror last week as 230 pilot whales became stranded at a beach near Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast. Some whales were saved, but the vast majority died. This left a big problem: what to do with all the rotting whale carcasses?

Satellite trackers show two of the animals are now ‘well south’ of Tasmania

Pilot whales rescued after a mass stranding of more than 200 on Tasmania's west coast are being tracked swimming in deep ocean waters south of the island.

A lack of understanding of consent and a culture where assaults are normalised are among the findings of a report into sexual violence in parts of southern Tasmania.

A faked meteorite crater in a school car park, concocted to promote a science "discovery day", is so well executed it sparks alarm on social media.

A Tasmanian council increases waste levies for short-stay rentals by more than 235 per cent despite not providing any extra services, with owners slugged $3,020 per dwelling.

Days after more than 200 whales became stranded on a remote beach on Tasmania's west coast, authorities complete the mammoth task of towing the carcasses — together weighing between 500 and 600 tonnes — out to the deeper waters of the Indian Ocean.

Reconciliation Tasmania is concerned the government's decision to choose Macquarie Point as its preferred stadium location could shunt aside a proposed Aboriginal reconciliation and truth-telling park, but MONA, the original designer of the idea, sees it as an opportunity to redesign the park concept.

The majority of more than 200 whales that washed up on a western Tasmanian beach have been removed, after rescuers successfully floated a few more.