The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

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

Tasmania's State of the Environment report is due every five years, a reporting requirement set down in legislation. Here's what we can find out about why the report was last seen in 2009.

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.

Biosecurity officials give up trying to contain a catastrophic plant fungus in Tasmania — and this farmer says it will be disastrous for his organic blueberry business.