3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (323+ words) Tasmanian parliament has voted down a Labor amendment to cap the number of firearms a person can legally own, with the proposal failing 16 votes to 15 shortly before 7pm tonight. The amendment, moved by Labor member Jen Butler, would have limited licence…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (383+ words) Last summer’s bushfire season was rated normal. Buildings still burned at Dolphin Sands and St Helens. This spring, north-east Tasmania’s risk is rated higher than normal and fire agencies are urging residents to prepare now. Below-average rainfall is forecast across…...

3+ day, 4+ hour 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, 9+ 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…...

4+ day, 9+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (631+ words) People convicted of sexual offences, family violence and serious violent crimes would be blocked from using good character references to reduce their sentences under legislation being debated in Tasmania’s parliament today. Attorney-General Guy Barnett spoke in support of the Sentencing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (258+ words) Bird flu has been confirmed at Beaumaris on Tasmania’s east coast, with a crested tern testing positive for the H5 strain. It is the 25th bird flu event recorded in Tasmania and the second in the state’s north-east, according to NRE Tasmania....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (366+ words) Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds is in Palau this week for the Pacific Islands Forum, in her new role heading an international push to get solar panels onto 300 million homes by the end of the decade. Reynolds is the director…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (340+ words) Woolworths will pull several Tamar Valley Dairy dessert products from its shelves next month, in the latest blow for Tasmanian food producers. The supermarket has confirmed to Pulse it will remove several of the Launceston-made brand’s indulgent dessert products, including…...