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Police charge a man after he allegedly produced a 30-centimetre knife at a Christmas carols event in Launceston.

For more than two decades, Rob Pennicott has taken tourists to see the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. But what he describes as "dead zones" have him so worried that he is funding a study to find what is going wrong.

The Tasmanian premier's department authorised more than $13,000 of taxpayer money to be spent with a local media organisation to promote the budget after the government asked for an election to be held, documents show.

In every Australian state and the NT, churches cannot be held vicariously liable for historical child sexual abuse perpetrated by their priests. Grace Tame is leading the charge for change.

More than two years after Belgian backpacker Celine Cremer vanished near Philosopher Falls, new discoveries have helped investigators better understand her final movements — though many questions still remain.

Police and other emergency services are responding to a chemical spill in George Town where a quantity of formic acid has been spilled. 

Long-term residents of Tasmanian caravan parks would be protected from unlimited rent increases and no-grounds evictions and be able to sell their homes under draft legislation.

Locals of an east coast Tasmanian community say they urged authorities to tighten rules around burn-offs in the years before yet another bushfire tore through the area.

With only nine more sleeps until Christmas, we have now entered the meteorological window of predictability — in other words, forecasts are more accurate than just guessing the weather.

The Tasmanian government's new laws to protect people from targeted violence have sailed through the state's parliament, with experts celebrating their "innovative" approach. But some say the job is not done yet, with work still needed to implement them successfully.

One of the key searchers involved in the renewed hunt for missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer has told of the emotion and excitement when her mobile phone was found, two and a half years after she disappeared in Tasmania.

A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's detention facilities and a breach of human rights.

The search volunteer who found the phone said he "just melted" when he saw the phone, which has been confirmed as belonging to Celine Cremer, who went missing two and a half years ago.

After a fast-moving bushfire reached the front door of her home in 2023, Kay Douglas is now better prepared in case it happens again.

A renewed five-day search for missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer will take place from Saturday in Tasmania's north-west.

Australian partygoers are using walking aids to support their ketamine habit at music festivals across the country.

State health ministers had their final meeting of the year with their federal counterpart on Friday armed with figures showing a 25 per cent increase in just three months of aged care patients stranded in hospitals.

A northern Tasmanian man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison for the "unnecessary and pointless" 2022 stabbing death of another man.

A salmon company gave Tasmanian authorities a week's notice before it planned to start using a new antibiotic in the state's waterways to combat a disease outbreak, sparking a strong rebuke from the industry regulator.

The federal government has announced more than $200 million in additional funding over the next seven years for Antarctic science and logistics.