The Latest Breaking News from Hobart City Council

A landlord's plans to convert an entire row of terrace-house flats into short-stay accommodation may end tenants' leases in the midst of the rental crisis.

A new policy to proactively declare councillors' potential conflicts of interests before they arise is set to be voted on at a Hobart City Council meeting this evening.

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he would be "pleased" to receive an updated kunanyi/Mt Wellington cable car proposal after the company behind the project hit a major snag in the state's planning tribunal.

Almost a decade of planning, lobbying and debate come to an end as the Mount Wellington Cableway Company confirms it will not appeal against its defeat in the state planning tribunal.

Tasmania's planning authority rules the controversial kunanyi/Mt Wellington cable car project should not go ahead, upholding Hobart City Council's original refusal of the project.

Bitter enemies in the same chambers, a golliwog defender firming as mayor in one municipality, and other political careers shredded — who said Tasmania's council elections would be boring?

As a Tasmanian council moves to take down a statue of the state's former premier, an expert says we can expect more challenges to colonial figures to come.

There is a palpable sense of relief for many in Tasmania's Aboriginal community over the decision to remove a 133-year-old statue of a man accused of mutilating a deceased Aboriginal man, but one historian says there are other monuments to men who did far worse — just metres away.

Hobart City Council has voted to take down the statue of former premier William Crowther who stole the skull of an Aboriginal man in the 1860s.