8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (364+ words) A coroner has been unable to determine what caused a house fire that killed a Swansea woman on Tasmania’s east coast. Merrell Down, 68, died at her two-storey home on February 28, 2024. Her remains were found in the debris three days later…...

14+ hour, 58+ min ago   (307+ words) A Smithton man who began selling methamphetamine to fund his own drug habit and became caught in a “cycle” of debt has been sentenced in the Supreme Court. Dylan Jackson Gale, 35, pleaded guilty to trafficking a controlled substance, along with…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (358+ words) A man has been jailed for four years for raping a 15-year-old girl in a Launceston hotel room after a party. Blake Ellis Jetson, now 27, was found guilty by a jury of indecent assault and two counts of rape. He…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (149+ words) A man has been fined for dangerous driving after dashcam footage showed him overtaking across double white lines on the Bass Highway near Elizabeth Town, in the state’s north. The incident happened close to Gannons Hill Road, where three people…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (766+ words) Kristie Johnston has delivered a scathing assessment of Police Minister Felix Ellis as he sat less than two metres in front of her in parliament, never once looking up from his laptop as she delivered an emotional plea for safer…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (413+ words) A woman on Centrelink had nearly $40,000 move through her bank account while running a methylamphetamine trafficking business from her Burnie shed, a court has heard. Tori Rhonda Summers, 30, has avoided immediate jail over the operation, which she kept running even…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (455+ words) Graffiti, shoplifting, fuel drive-offs and other minor crimes can now be reported to Tasmania Police online instead of by phone or by visiting a police station. Tasmania Police opened its online crime reporting portal to the public today, months after…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (87+ words) A man has been arrested after allegedly trying to assault members of the public at Kingston dog beach on Tuesday. Tasmania Police said officers were called to the beach shortly before midday following reports of a man “acting erratically and…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (210+ words) A young P-plater has lost his licence for 12 months after police found his car crashed into a guard rail in Hobart’s northern suburbs early this morning. Police came across the vehicle on Main Road at Claremont around 1:20am on Tuesday. The…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (579+ words) An MLC and mayoral candidate have called on the Tasmanian government to fast-track worker safety laws after a retail worker was allegedly stabbed at Spotlight in Glenorchy on Sunday. The worker was taken to hospital with a small knife wound,…...