Contradictory messages on AFL stadium funding
As the clock ticks down to club presidents voting on whether Tasmania can have its own team in the AFL, finance for a $750 million Hobart stadium for home games isn't any closer to a...
Six new mayors for the Coast - Three deputies say they are up for it
Six of the North-West Coast's nine councils will have a new mayor in October, but councils won't be bereft of experience, with at least three deputy mayors putting their hands up to run for mayor...
Coastal basketballers try out for Jack Jumpers
Two North West Thunder basketballers are among a group of 28 hopefuls being assessed as potential development players for the Tasmania Jack Jumpers NBL side.
Penguin's Ryley Haywood and Latrobe's Ben Woolley, who both played key...
Calling all chocolate lovers - four choccy filled days at Latrobe
Latrobe's famous Chocolate Winterfest is underway for 2022, expanded from a one-day event to a four-day festival this year for the first time, with more than 40 events at 29 locations in and around the...
Polo ponies case underway
Sixteen polo ponies found dead after a Spirit of Tasmania summer sailing across Bass Strait "suffocated" during the voyage inside a trailer where they were incorrectly stalled without adequate ventilation, a court has been told.
Ferry...
Tasmania Covid-19 death toll reaches 160
Tasmania has reached another grim milestone, with Coronavirus linked deaths climbing to 160.
A woman in her late 90s has passed away in the North West.
669 new cases have been recorded overnight, on par with yesterday's figures.
20...
Woman waiting for bed dies
Answers will be sought on a woman in her 70s waiting more than nine hours for admission to Launceston General Hospital on Friday.
She had been in a ramped ambulance and died on Saturday morning around...
Latrobe tops Coastal real estate
The Latrobe Municipality has the most expensive real estate on the North-West Coast, according to the Real Estate Institute of Tasmania.
The institute's quarterly Property Focus Tasmania report lists the average price of a house in...
The message is clear - Stay off train lines
Coastal pedestrians are being reminded during National Rail Safety Week not to trespass onto train lines.
TasRail has released on-train and crossing surveillance video footage of several near misses at crossings in Devonport, Spreyton, Ulverstone and...
New Bridgewater Bridge taking shape
Early works are progressing on the new Bridgewater Bridge.
It's the state's largest ever infrastructure project and will fix the missing link in Tasmania’s National Highway, improve connections at Bridgewater and Granton, and cater for cyclists...