The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Capturing birds on camera has become an obsession for this full-time engineer.

An e-petition against greyhound racing to the Tasmanian parliament reached a record number of signatures last week, with 13,519 people demanding the state government end public funding of the industry. The previous record in Tasmania was 11,699 signatures, for an e-petition supporting end-of-life choices.

An old lead and zinc mine on the west coast of Tasmania could become home to "Australia's largest emerging, 100 per cent renewable energy bitcoin mine".

A wilderness tour operator in Tasmania joins the call for the native logging industry to end, saying it gives the "wrong message" to interstate visitors — with a Wilderness Society-backed report likening the annual carbon emissions from logging to "a million cars".

Farmers counting the cost of severe wind damage in Tasmania's north at the weekend expect it to be in the millions of dollars, with animal welfare concerns growing that dairies without power are still unable to milk.

Market notices published on the AEMO website warned of possible power interruptions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

A witness tells Tasmania's child sexual abuse inquiry she and her sibling were left at a foster home where an alleged child abuser was living, as figures show the out-of-home-care system receives one report of abuse every week.

Australians wary of booking international holidays could be helping to boost the data in Tasmania's latest tourism snapshot, one operator says — but the numbers are still suffering a COVID hangover.

A snow-topped kunanyi/Mount Wellington in Hobart can be picture-perfect, but if you venture into the snow unprepared and get into trouble, don't expect to be rescued straight away.