3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (399+ words) A former Launceston plastic surgeon has been fined $2,000 after failing to properly warn a patient about the risks of a tummy tuck that left her needing 12 follow-up operations. Gary Kode operated on the woman at Calvary St Vincent’s Hospital on…...

13+ hour, 36+ min ago   (307+ words) A Smithton man who began selling methamphetamine to fund his own drug habit and became caught in a “cycle” of debt has been sentenced in the Supreme Court. Dylan Jackson Gale, 35, pleaded guilty to trafficking a controlled substance, along with…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (438+ words) A Tasmanian man’s months-long wait for an urgent colonoscopy has become a flashpoint in state parliament, with both the Greens and Labor raising the case to pressure the government over health funding. The case, first reported by the ABC, involves…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (314+ words) Tasmania’s free hospitality wellbeing program HOSPO Health has been named a national finalist in the 2026 National Safety Awards of Excellence. The program, delivered by Hospitality Tasmania, was recognised in the Best Safety Leadership Program category alongside major national organisations including…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (333+ words) Bird flu has reached Flinders Island for the first time as the highly contagious H5 strain continues to spread across Tasmania. A greater crested tern tested positive on the island, marking the first confirmed case there, the Department of Natural Resources…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (522+ words) The medical regulator has been ordered to pay Tasmania’s former chief psychiatrist $185,000 after a tribunal rejected an allegation that he crossed sexual boundaries with a former patient. Aaron Groves was stood down without pay, lost his registration and has been…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (301+ words) Thousands of Harley-Davidson riders across Australia and New Zealand will hit the road on Saturday, September 12, with Tasmania’s United We Ride event departing from Prospect Vale, south of Launceston. Richardson’s Harley-Davidson, the state’s only authorised Harley-Davidson dealership, will host the…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (579+ words) An MLC and mayoral candidate have called on the Tasmanian government to fast-track worker safety laws after a retail worker was allegedly stabbed at Spotlight in Glenorchy on Sunday. The worker was taken to hospital with a small knife wound,…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (260+ words) The final stage of a long-running project to install air conditioning at the Launceston General Hospital is set to begin, following years of complaints about the sweltering conditions on the hospital’s ageing wards. The hospital was built in the 1980s and…...