The Latest Breaking News from Hobart

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has pledged $360 million towards a Tasmanian team, noting approval for a 19th licence is contingent on securing funding for a stadium.

Tasmania are 226 runs behind Western Australia with five wickets in hand following a poor start to their Sheffield Shield first innings in Hobart.

An Antarctic cargo ship chartered to replace Australia's broken icebreaker is on its way back to Hobart after running aground at Mawson Station during a resupply mission — the latest in a long line of problems that have plagued the program.

The 23-year-old son of late underworld crime identity Mark 'Chopper' Read has faced a Hobart court on gun, drug and driving offences.

A growing number of north-west Tasmanian women say they are having birth inductions started and stopped, or are having to wait days after their waters break to be induced due to a midwife shortage.

While exercise is an important factor, members of Hobart's Knockoffs Run Club enjoy the sense of community it fosters. More than 500 people have now signed up for the Thursday night tradition.

A murder charge has followed the discovery of a man with head injuries in Hobart who later died in hospital, and police say the victim knew his alleged killer.

A man has been charged with murder after another man was found in a Hobart property yesterday with blunt-force injuries to the head.

A new alliance of community organisations is pushing for a levy to be paid by owners if houses are not occupied, as a means of addressing Tasmania's rental crisis, pointing to Vancouver, Canada, as an example of a similar measure working.