The Latest Breaking News from Launceston

A Tasmanian mayor, who also works with young people in local theatre, is currently undergoing a review of his working-with-children status by the Department of Justice.

A driver has died and two other people have been injured after a truck and car collided, with the truck smashing into a Launceston house.

Collingwood forward Patrick Lipinski has dislocated his shoulder in his side's six-point AFL practice match win over Hawthorn in Launceston.

When Chloe Winkler Sheean was offered a job at the Launceston Hospital, she had to turn it down. She says a financial incentive to move to Tasmania's north could have changed everything.

Mona Foma has returned to Launceston. As always, the festival offers a diverse program of contemporary art, design, music and performance, and works that sit somewhere between. There will be bands, there will be lasers, and there will be queer woodchopping.

British-born chef Max Crawford most recently worked at Launceston wine bar Havilah. Plus, Arthur's Pantry and Newcastle Food Month's $25 Plate Date deals.

Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival has taken over a car museum, a hardware store and now Launceston’s daggy former Tafe building, which is packed with art, music and performances

From swapping in a blue, cloudless sky to making the grass a little — or a lot — greener, the use of selective photo magic to make real estate ads more appealing is not new — but this $4 million "renovator's dream" got the full treatment.

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.