The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Tuesday: Scott Morrison’s use of extraordinary ministerial powers to block a controversial gas project faces a legal challenge. Plus: a survey of homes has found which states are too humid and too cold

There is a palpable sense of relief for many in Tasmania's Aboriginal community over the decision to remove a 133-year-old statue of a man accused of mutilating a deceased Aboriginal man, but one historian says there are other monuments to men who did far worse — just metres away.

It is not official yet, but weather experts say Sunday's heavy rains across Tasmania look to have broken records for all-time biggest downpours in a number of locations.

William Lodewyk Crowther, later premier of Tasmania, mutilated the corpse of Aboriginal man William Lanne in 1869

Eager buyers are snapping up unused churches around Australia and giving historic buildings a new life as homes, accommodation and workspaces

As waters become warmer over a greater proportion of the state, it's leading to better habitat for fish like snapper and research shows they're set to become more abundant.

A Tasmania police officer is taken to hospital after his new patrol car was involved in a highway crash with a car driven by a member of the public — two days after the vehicle was used to launch a new road safety campaign.

Ratepayers in rural areas around Tasmania are being slugged with a levy to prop up medical clinics, prompting fresh calls for the commonwealth to step in and help.

Sixteen of the 18 horses that travelled on a Spirit of Tasmania ferry trip in 2018 likely died about eight hours into the voyage, a court hears, and the two that survived were the last loaded onto their converted refrigeration trailer.