The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A coroner has ruled inattention was the likely cause of a two-car crash that killed a Victorian couple who were on holiday with their children in Tasmania.

A coroner finds speed, weather and road conditions did not contribute a deadly crash that left three teenage children in the car orphaned last year.

Two mental health treatment centres in Tasmania's north have closed due to COVID outbreaks — with a health union blasting what it says is a "lack of planning" and a parent fearing for those desperate for help.

A contentious wind farm proposed for Tasmania's north-western tip could interfere with the recovery of a critically endangered parrot species, and significantly impact a population of Tasmanian devils thought to be key to the species' survival, documents obtained under right to information laws show.

Tourism operator Experience Co is pushing for a seven-day catered walk through Tasmania's south-west, but elders say proposals in areas with Aboriginal heritage sites should be put on hold until the state's new Aboriginal Heritage Act is tabled later this year.

As the Tasmanian winter sets in, Michael Reardon and many others who can't afford to rent are struggling to keep warm.

A prisoner in Tasmania who set his mattress on fire had been locked in his cell for four days straight and was unable to access mental health help.

Fancy living where a former prime minister used to dispense wisdom? This 1860's school house might be just what you are looking for — if you don't mind a shift from the mainland.

A female school cleaner in Tasmania has been jailed for one year for the persistent sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy over about four months.