The Latest Breaking News from Hobart

The Deputy Chief Magistrate asks Hobart City Council if he would need council permission to "prune a rose" in his own garden, during a court case about the alleged destruction of a heritage property.

Convicted rapist Shane Farmer, once labelled Tasmania's worst sex offender by a former top prosecutor, has had his Airbnb account suspended as he attempts to win council approval to convert his inner Hobart property into visitor accommodation.

Plans are released for a $130 million upgrade of one of Hobart's most iconic landmarks, the Tasman Bridge — the first major works since the disaster of 1975 in which 12 people died.

In Tasmania it can get so cold you open the door to the fridge to warm the house up — where are the coldest places and how does it compare with mainland Australia?

A woman will face court accused of attempted murder after a man was shot and stabbed northwest of Hobart, police say.

Artist Tom O'Hern wants more people to embrace the art of drawing badly, saying life has become too full of perfection.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urges the Tasmanian government to "get on with" developing prime land on Hobart's waterfront that he poured tens of millions of dollars into when he was last in government a decade ago.

The composer has been working underground at Mona since July, writing a new piece each day to be performed that afternoon. The experiment has been ‘traumatic’, he says – and it has changed him for good

About 2,000 people run naked into Hobart's River Derwent to celebrate the passing of the longest night and the end of Dark Mofo.