The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A lack of understanding of consent and a culture where assaults are normalised are among the findings of a report into sexual violence in parts of southern Tasmania.

A faked meteorite crater in a school car park, concocted to promote a science "discovery day", is so well executed it sparks alarm on social media.

A Tasmanian council increases waste levies for short-stay rentals by more than 235 per cent despite not providing any extra services, with owners slugged $3,020 per dwelling.

Days after more than 200 whales became stranded on a remote beach on Tasmania's west coast, authorities complete the mammoth task of towing the carcasses — together weighing between 500 and 600 tonnes — out to the deeper waters of the Indian Ocean.

Reconciliation Tasmania is concerned the government's decision to choose Macquarie Point as its preferred stadium location could shunt aside a proposed Aboriginal reconciliation and truth-telling park, but MONA, the original designer of the idea, sees it as an opportunity to redesign the park concept.

The majority of more than 200 whales that washed up on a western Tasmanian beach have been removed, after rescuers successfully floated a few more.

This part of the island is known as a ‘whale trap’ but using technology to prevent the events may interfere with the natural cycle

There are no more surviving pilot whales following a mass stranding at a beach on Tasmania's west coast as plans to dispose of about 200 of the dead ramps up.

An estimated 230 pilot whales had become beached on Tasmania’s remote and rugged west coast.

The whale rescue effort on Tasmania's west coast now turns to the gruesome task of disposing of the animals which could not be saved — and, unlike two years ago, the bodies won't be left to decompose where they lay.

Saving the whales stranded on Tasmania's west coast is emotionally taxing work, but helping even a few has kept the team pushing through, rescuers say.