The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

A last-minute proposal from the state government to improve working conditions for Tasmania's nurses fails to stop a strike from going ahead at the Launceston General Hospital.

Layla was only in year 8 when she found herself on the streets. It was an incident she does not want to detail that prompted her to seek a different path — to a place where she now helps other young people in Tasmania.

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee–Florentine karst area. Its depth just beat out its predecessor, the Niggly Cave, by about…

A migrant caught masturbating in a car could be deported from Australia if he is put on a Tasmanian sex offender's register. Lawyers and psychologists say a method used to determine the man's risk of reoffending has been misused.

Biosecurity officials give up trying to contain a catastrophic plant fungus in Tasmania — and this farmer says it will be disastrous for his organic blueberry business.

The spectre of near-empty dams looms large in the minds of Tasmanians who recall the 2016 electricity crisis — but despite coming off the driest summer to autumn period on record and falling levels heading into drier months, experts say there is no need for alarm.

After more than six months of preparation and 14 hours underground, a group of cavers abseil, crawl, squeeze and climb more than 400 metres underground in southern Tasmania, uncovering Australia's deepest known cave.

"Confused" is how Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O'Connor says she feels about the way the Tasmanian government is continuing to support development in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

Imagine dangling from a rope "higher than tallest part of Sydney Harbour Bridge" — in the dark. Add to that squeezing through rocky gaps, deep underground. That's what a group of explorers are planning to do in order to prove Australia has a new deepest cave in southern Tasmania.