3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (313+ words) Incat’s Hull 096, the world’s largest battery-electric ship, has arrived in South America after travelling thousands of kilometres from Hobart. The Tasmanian-built vessel was officially welcomed at a ceremony in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay, over the weekend. It was then successfully floated…...

7+ hour, 57+ 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…...

8+ hour, 53+ min ago   (425+ words) The Elwick Road roundabout in Glenorchy would be removed and replaced with traffic lights under the state government’s $315 million plan to run rapid buses through Hobart’s northern suburbs. The intersection would also get bus priority measures, with changes to how…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago   (428+ words) A Perth company says it can make clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels and wants to build the machines to do it at Bell Bay. PolarBlue announced the plan on Sunday, saying it would invest $1.5 billion over three years and…...

13+ hour, 56+ 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…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (327+ words) A new documentary 16 years in the making will give audiences the full story behind one of the world’s most iconic big wave surfing locations, right here in Tasmania. Stern Fever, produced by Clifton Beach filmmaker Talon Clemow charts how Shipstern…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (201+ words) Police caught 114 drivers making a banned left turn in the Hobart CBD in just two hours on Thursday morning, nine days after the restriction came into effect. The operation was run at the corner of Argyle and Liverpool streets, where…...

3+ day, 19+ 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…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (330+ words) Tasmania’s lower house has passed the most significant overhaul of the state’s firearms laws in 30 years, but not before voting down a push to cap the number of guns a person can legally own. The Firearms Amendment (Strengthening Firearms Security)…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (323+ words) Tasmanian parliament has voted down a Labor amendment to cap the number of firearms a person can legally own, with the proposal failing 16 votes to 15 shortly before 7pm tonight. The amendment, moved by Labor member Jen Butler, would have limited licence…...