There's been a scare for residents of an apartment complex in Hobart's CBD who had an early morning fire evacuation. Combustible materials being placed on a kitchen hotplate caused the blaze at the Salvation Army Common Ground...

A man has been arrested and charged over a number of fires at Hobart supermarkets over the past week, totaling over $40 thousand in damage and loses. It comes after a small fire which forced the...

Information gathering aimed at maximising connectivity for Tasmania's West Coast is behind a visit by the Federal Communications Minister, Paul Fletcher. The government's committed to 18 and a half million dollars for broadband upgrades. The Minister's also...

There's some concern for Launceston's CBD businesses after an expanded K-mart shopping complex was approved by council. The multi-million dollar development will add 11 single tenancies on the building's ground floor by expanding into the south-western...

Despite the economic pointers favouring Tasmania, local Christmas spending power is lower. Retail research by Accenture finds Tasmanians on average will spend $587 this Christmas, a full $99 less than the national average. 55% of Tasmania's spend...

Susan Neill Fraser's daughter says the family is shattered she'll be spending another Christmas behind bars after the latest hearing into her appeal. Neill-Fraser is appealing her murder conviction over the Australia Day disappearance of her...

Police are appealing for information as they investigate a house fire in Queenstown believed to have been deliberately lit in the early hours of yesterday morning. Shortly after 3am police and emergency services responded to reports...

A Southern Tasmanian man arrested over a motorbike drama on the Brooker Highway in July is walking free today, with nearly $27,000 in penalties. A policeman noticed false plates on Huon William Gendall's motorbike and told...

Flying passengers across Australia has just become a whole lot more complicated. 90 Jetstar flights are vanishing from boards at airports around the nation and Tasmania has its fair share of the mess. It's due to Jetstar...

A bushfire sparked by lightning west of Swansea is still out of control but isn't posing an immediate threat. The state's newly-launched air fleet of five helicopters and two planes, being based in Hobart and Launceston,...