Emily Smith

Tasmanian parliamentarians have censured a minister for breaking his word to a local football club after it attended an election campaign media event with the opposition.

Medical experts fear sick or injured Tasmanians who make their own way to emergency departments wait longer than others, due to pressures to fast-track ambulance patients.

Launceston City Council recently received backlash over its redevelopment of Albert Hall. A councillor now warns another project will cost more than planned, as he calls out a culture of "secrecy".

Authorities say $38 million has been spent trying to stop this town from stinking, but residents say they are still being forced indoors, put off meals and subjected to humiliating jokes.

A ratepayers' group is calling for an audit of the $20 million redevelopment of Launceston's heritage-listed Albert Hall for what it says are design flaws.

As a pause in production at troubled smelter Liberty Bell Bay stretches on, speculation about its future builds after a series of meetings between a US private credit provider and Tasmania's industry minister.

Tasmanian healthcare experts are calling for assurances about the future of a private hospital in Launceston in the wake of a costly infrastructure failure. 

Rural residents in Tasmania's north hope a recent council decision will spell the end for a developer wanting to build almost 300 homes.

A plan that will enable a state-of-the-art medical facility with 10 operating theatres, a laboratory, pharmacy, helipad and a bridge to Launceston's public hospital is unanimously supported by all Launceston councillors in a vote.

Luke Anthony Shaw, Paul William Shaw and Patrick Kenneth Dolbey were charged with the murder of David Wayne Jenkins, who was stabbed 11 times in October 2022.

The trial of two brothers and another man accused of the stabbing murder of a man in Tasmania's north in 2022 hears there is "no serious dispute" that Luke Shaw "was the person who killed" David Jenkins.

Launceston City Council bought the historic Birchalls building for $8.8 million five years ago. A ratepayer association says it has learnt of a proposal to give it away "for nothing".

A Tasmanian man on trial for murder has told a court he "attacked" and swore at his brother, after learning his younger sibling had allegedly stabbed a man who later died.

Thousands of native tree ferns are harvested from Tasmania's forests for export each year. Some say the trade saves ferns from destruction, while others accuse the industry of greenwashing.

A Tasmanian court hears a man left a voice message "minutes" after an alleged murder, saying he had just seen a person stabbed multiple times.

A man on trial for murder had a flight booked for him in another person's name hours after the event where a man was fatally stabbed 11 times, a court has heard.

A murder trial has heard one of the co-accused men was "scared", "frantic", "very, very sweaty" and "swearing to God he didn't do it" after a confrontation in which a man died of stab wounds.

A Tasmanian woman who was allegedly the subject of a dispute that left one man dead and another accused of his murder says she has almost no memory of the evening because she had used "a lot of drugs".

Tasmanian ratepayers will spend around $60,000 to send councillors and senior staff to a Japanese sister city that gave Launceston its macaque monkeys. One ratepayer believes it is "nothing more than a junket holiday".

An alleged murder victim was "angry" and intoxicated when he borrowed a baseball bat from a friend prior to being fatally stabbed, a trial in Launceston Supreme Court has heard.

Many of the world's ski field operators now rely on snow machines to guarantee business, but others say the practice uses too much water and risks environmental harm. 

Tracing operations are underway to determine the potential distribution of potato mop-top virus after a second case in a month has been detected in the state.

Robin Phillips said he was sick for days after inhaling wood heater smoke and is calling on authorities to better enforce rules around the heating device's use.

The Great Smog of London spurred the British to fight for better air quality in the 1950s. As concerns about air pollution surface in Australia, some say the incident still holds lessons. 

It's been a week since Tasmanian couple Gregory Vaughan and Kim Worner along with their dog Molly, stepped into a small green plane and flew away without a trace.