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The Californian bushfires are a “preview of what can happen in Hobart”, a Tasmanian professor and one of the world’s leading ...

Tasmania is forecast to be in the centre of a three-day low-intensity heatwave starting Friday — but there’s one business ...

A set of identical triplets has been born at the Royal Hobart Hospital in what’s believed to be the first birth of its kind ...

A ticketing system should be considered to prevent peak season overcrowding in Tasmania’s world-famous national parks says ...

A record-breaking turnout is expected for this weekend’s Cadbury Marathon. At noon Wednesday, the number of registrations sat ...

A man has died after he was found with critical injuries inside a suburban home south of Newcastle in NSW. Emergency services ...