The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

For Andrew Morgan and Dave Wise, a chance meeting at a university bar led not only to a long friendship, but also the creation of Australia's first drowned timber company.

Five states and territories face another day of damaging winds and dangerous surf, with conditions are expected to worsen for millions of Australians.

Layla was only in year 8 when she found herself on the streets. It was an incident she does not want to detail that prompted her to seek a different path — to a place where she now helps other young people in Tasmania.

Tasmania has maintained net negative emissions for seven consecutive years, the state government's latest greenhouse gas report shows.

Tasmania's isolation is a major challenge for organisations offering support to former defence personnel in the island state, a royal commission has been told.

The former employee of a private school in Tasmania's south has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $150,000 from the college during the course of her employment.

It will add to the town's charm, they said. It will increase safety and "make a positive contribution to the overall street", they said. Well, if this Tasmanian local council thought their $8.2 million plan for Longford's main drag was going to be welcomed, a gaggle of grumpy farmers in…

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee–Florentine karst area. Its depth just beat out its predecessor, the Niggly Cave, by about…

A migrant caught masturbating in a car could be deported from Australia if he is put on a Tasmanian sex offender's register. Lawyers and psychologists say a method used to determine the man's risk of reoffending has been misused.