The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

An Australia-first speech pathology course, designed to teach prisoners language and literacy skills, is helping people find employment, reconnect with family and reduce their chances of reoffending.

An inquiry has been told an alleged pedophile worked for years at Tasmania's youth detention centre while abuse accusations sat idle on government records.

Promotional content for Colossal Biosciences has been posted on Instagram and TikTok using the hashtag #ColossalPartner

A coroner examining the 2018 death of a young pilot says he cannot find anyone at fault following her fatal crash at a mountain range in remote southern Tasmania — but slammed Australia's air safety investigator for its "worthless" investigation of the tragedy.

It seems that just like pets, feral cats — along with a host of native species — are attracted by feather boas and this finding might help scientists control the destructive pests.

Members of the swift parrot recovery team slam the Tasmanian government for attempting to downplay the risk that logging plays in the species' future, urging the Commonwealth to ignore suggested edits to a draft plan that instead emphasise sugar glider predation.

If approved, this will be one of the largest seismic exploration projects ever undertaken, with surveys across an area larger than Tasmania.

Despite a significant watering-down of the Liberals' flagship anti-protest laws, with reduced penalties and some proposals thrown out altogether, Tasmanian environmental campaigners and LGBTIQA+ advocates have still blasted the legislation as being an "assault on democracy".

A former detainee of Tasmania's youth detention centre urges the commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse to "tear the place down and start again", amid allegations one area of the prison was known as the "gladiator pit" due to fights.

An inquiry into child sexual abuse at Tasmania's youth detention centre has been told information about allegations wasn't pieced together until recently.

A late-winter cold front has brought icy temperatures to south-east NSW. With plenty of snowfall has come plenty of photographs of the winter wonderland.