Tasmania Police believe the four-year-old boy ran onto Franmaree Road in Newnham, Launceston, and was struck by a grey Suzuki vehicle on Saturday evening. Emergency services were called to the scene ...

The new owner of the Boyer mill in Tasmania's Derwent Valley says it will need to diversify its products to remain viable.

This week, Hamish Geale wrote a story about a couple of Launceston blokes having fun with a Google map camera in the Brisbane ...

A state-of-the-art catamaran reveals a stretch of Tasmania’s rugged southern coastline that few visitors get to see.

The Bass Highway has been closed after two utes crashed at the end of the Illawarra Road on-ramp this morning. Authorities ...

Tasmania’s brisk waters produce some of the world’s best seafood with briny ingredients being reclaimed and reinvented on ...

A grove of ancient trees, including Tasmania's oldest-known Huon pine tree, has come under threat by an ongoing bushfire.

Police are at the scene of a crash near the intersection of Formby Road and Elizabeth Street in Devonport.

Thousands of dry lightning strikes have sparked multiple bushfires, some within remote national parks and world heritage ...

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Do you love the idea of a road trip like driving the cliffs of Amalfi Coast or the Pacific Coast Highway in California? If so ...