The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

As a disability provider in Tasmania which underpaid staff $700,000 pledges to return "every dollar" there are concerns the issue is becoming more widespread in a sector where workers are already low paid.

Nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital will walk off the job on Wednesday, despite an offer from the Tasmanian government to bring negotiations forward.

Under compulsory preferential voting, all formal votes must eventually preference one of the major parties over the other. The electoral commission has released preference flow information for all minor parties, This means we can tell, for example, how many Greens voters preferred Labor and how many the Coalition.

With the peak of the latest Omicron wave expected to hit Tasmania, some parents and teachers are nervous about today's start to Term 3 and want masks mandated in schools, not just recommended.

A Federal court finds the Morrison government's approval for a tailings dam in Tasmania's wilderness area is invalid, prompting calls for people arrested during protests there to be compensated as "citizen heroes".

The Federal Court has declared government approval for mine expansion-related works in west Tasmania didn't properly consider potential harm to a rare owl.

Tasmania's Police Minister Jacquie Petrusma has walked away from politics, the fourth cabinet member to quit the state government this year.

The struggle to find rent in Tasmania has been well documented and there are even fewer places that allow animals but the government says it's now willing to review laws to stop people from having to surrender their pets.

Tasmania's premier has threatened to withdraw the state government's funding offer for an AFL team if the league "doesn't respect" its magnitude.

Mosques are few and far between in regional Australia, but they can play an important role in attracting and retaining young professionals to places outside major cities.

Tasmanians requiring specialist procedures for strokes and aneurysms will be sent to Melbourne for treatment, due to the state being without its two interventional neuroradiologists.