2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (201+ words) Police caught 114 drivers making a banned left turn in the Hobart CBD in just two hours on Thursday morning, nine days after the restriction came into effect. The operation was run at the corner of Argyle and Liverpool streets, where…...

3+ day ago   (472+ words) Premier Jeremy Rockliff has promised to work with farmers who say they are being unfairly fined for clearing trees on their own land, after hundreds protested at Parliament House, dozens of them arriving by tractor. The rally on Thursday targeted…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (413+ words) A woman on Centrelink had nearly $40,000 move through her bank account while running a methylamphetamine trafficking business from her Burnie shed, a court has heard. Tori Rhonda Summers, 30, has avoided immediate jail over the operation, which she kept running even…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (639+ words) Tasmanian farmers have driven their tractors to Parliament House to protest against forestry regulation they say is fining them out of business. The tractors rolled into Hobart from across the south-east and the Midlands, Huon Valley and Derwent Valley for…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (358+ words) A $12 million election promise for a new Launceston bus interchange has been returned to the state budget as a saving after the site it was tied to fell through. The money was committed at the 2024 state election for a new…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (301+ words) The Spirit of Tasmania will carry no passengers across Bass Strait for eight days next month as TT-Line swaps its two decades-old ferries for a pair of larger vessels. The state-owned ferry operator has closed bookings from October 23 to 30, with…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (344+ words) Drivers have been stopped from turning left at a busy Hobart CBD intersection until at least next August as work ramps up on the Royal Hobart Hospital emergency department expansion. The restriction at the intersection of Argyle and Liverpool streets…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (318+ words) A Launceston man continued downloading child abuse material while on bail for similar offending, amassing thousands of images and videos across devices in his home, a court has heard. Lee Anthony Jenkins, 50, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of possessing or controlling…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (210+ words) A young P-plater has lost his licence for 12 months after police found his car crashed into a guard rail in Hobart’s northern suburbs early this morning. Police came across the vehicle on Main Road at Claremont around 1:20am on Tuesday. The…...

6+ day, 10+ min ago   (330+ words) A Singapore-based developer says a proposed 13-storey car park and short-stay apartment building in central Hobart would ease pressure on homes being converted into holiday rentals. Fragrance Group wants to demolish a three-storey office block at 171 Macquarie Street and build…...