The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Former Geelong president and author of a report into the viability of a Tasmanian AFL team, Colin Carter, says focus should not be on a building a new stadium.

Nurses and midwives at Tasmania's biggest public hospital have walked off the job in their battle for better resources and more pay.

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.