Lead poisons Tassie town's water

KNOX Raiders men have fallen further from the leaders in the South East Australian Basketball League south conference after losing both matches in their Tasmanian road trip on the weekend. The Raiders lost to Hobart Chargers 99-84 on Friday night, ...

For us, after a quick trip to the Salamanca Markets to stock up, it was all about hitching the Jayco to the Subaru Forester, and getting on the road to explore the state's East Coast. Nothing in Tasmania is very far away. To get to the seaside ...

Tasmania's glory days are ahead, says Dr Bob Brown, former leader of the Australian Greens, but he argues the forest peace deal is not going to get us there. "What's happened here is that the loggers get their money, but the reserves go wanting," Dr ...

Eastern Ranges made an impressive visit to Aurora Stadium in Launceston on Saturday, scoring a big win over Tasmania in a special TAC Cup match. The Ranges made a match-winning move in the second term, kicking eight goals to two to hold a 50-point ...

Nearly 60 years after it was deemed extinct, he believes he spotted a thylacine in in the wilderness of Tasmania's Weld Valley. The details of the sighting are outlined in his new book, 'Shadow of the Thylacine: One man's epic search for the ...

TASMANIAN politicians have put their stomachs on the line to prove the state's oysters are safe to eat. A dodgy batch of oysters from the island state has been blamed for up to 400 cases of gastroenteritis in Tasmania and on the mainland. Sewage ...

Veteran driver Jason Bright has scored his first V8 Supercar race in two years after taking out Sunday's opener at Symmons Plains in Tasmania. Winner ... Jason Bright leads Garth Tander around Symmons Plains. Source: Ross Marsden / NewsLocal Veteran ...

Holden driver Fabian Coulthard celebrates after winning race three for round two of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Launceston on April

Tassie MP lashed for calling Thatcher a war criminal Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr says former British leader Baroness Margaret Thatcher made an ''unabashedly racist'' comment, recalling what she said to him about Asian immigration after she ...