The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

The dress made famous by Kylie Minogue as she walked down the aisle as Charlene to marry Scott in 1987 on Neighbours is about to come out of the box and go on display, but Tasmanian curators would love to know where her matching veil, gloves and shoes are.

Tasmania's upper house effectively passes legislation to impose harsher penalties for protesters and organisations that obstruct workers or cause a "serious risk". Here's what it means for a state with environmental protest woven into its identity.

The wife of a Tasmanian man who died in floods in 2016 told police the floodwater that killed her husband "came so quickly" and she had "never seen anything like it before".

Artist Tom O'Hern wants more people to embrace the art of drawing badly, saying life has become too full of perfection.

We are unique among liberal democracies in lacking robust legal protection for human rights

It was the hot topic of letters between former PM Scott Morrison and the Tasmanian government — and it appears there's still no guarantee Australia's poorest state won't pay half the cost of a massive new power project but reap only a fraction of the benefits.

The surviving partner of a newspaper delivery driver told him they were both going to die before he slipped from the top of their van into floodwaters.

The Waratah-Wynyard Council is calling on the Tasmanian government to intervene and sack convicted councillor Darren Fairbrother, who was sentenced this year for flashing a crown prosecutor and her son, because they are powerless to do so.

The final buttons to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate were pressed in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia on Monday. I wrote about the distribution of preferences in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania on Saturday, and the climate activist’s David Pocock’s ACT Senate victory on Tuesday.

A recent cold snap across Tasmania provided plenty of picture-perfect scenery and Instagram photo fodder and — for the not-so-faint-hearted with know-how — the chance to scale a frozen waterfall.

Its mountains may not quite compare to the peaks of Nepal, but Tasmania is becoming home to more and more Nepalese people.