The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Eight people have been rescued amid wild weather on Hobart's Mt Wellington while a woman has been killed by a falling tree in Tasmania's northwest.

The ski lifts at Tasmania's largest ski field, Ben Lomond, are normally dormant at this time of the year, but freezing temperatures and a huge snow dump have allowed them to re-open earlier than expected.

A woman has been killed and a man seriously injured after being crushed by a falling tree in Tasmania's north-west, as the state is pounded by severe weather.

The birth of nine new Tasmanian devil joeys in regional New South Wales has spread excitement among conservation groups, who have been working to build the endangered species population on mainland Australia.

In a world-first, Tasmania will be recreated in a real-time virtual model to help predict where disasters will happen and how to keep communities safer.

Tasmanian Liberal MPs were patrons or members of at least seven organisations that won taxpayer-funded grants after pre-election promises — but the government is adamant the local community does not expect organisations to be ineligible "simply because a candidate is a patron".

Tasmanian mother of six, Darlene Avis Geertsema, who disappeared over 40 years ago was killed by her former partner, a coroner finds — with police confirming they will "review the findings".

There are calls for Tasmania to ban so-called gay conversion therapy by the end of the year to prevent the island state from becoming a "dumping ground" for the practice — but the Catholic Archbishop has "grave concerns" about what it sees as a "threat to religious freedoms".

Little Shara knows what she wants to say, but her brain is not able to tell her mouth muscles how to move to make the sounds. And living in Tasmania means her family struggles to find speech pathology services. Hopefully, that soon will change.