Bec Pridham

While oil and gas companies argue no lasting harm is done by undersea blasting, Tasmanian fisherman Danny Fox isn't so sure — and says if it's so harmless, he'd like to see an "oil executive" in a bath take a large blast of compressed air to "see what he thinks".

A Tasmanian man avoids jail time after pleading guilty to non-fatal strangling and assaulting his former partner, in one of the state's first cases since new laws were brought in.

Chelsea lived in "constant fear" of aggravating her father and says her childhood could have been different had she not been made to live with him. Now, changes in Australian law mean other children will hopefully be spared from the ordeal she endured.

A new pay deal for Tasmania's health workers is struck — but while welcomed by unions, is cautioned as not being "a silver bullet" to the sector's problems.

It's barely detectable to the human eye, but a microscopic parasite has decimated wombat populations across south-east Australia. Now, researchers have a better idea of how outbreaks occur, as they continue working to find ways to rescue the iconic marsupial from a "horrible, slow death".

A Tasmanian man who tried to kill his wife and two young children, then attacked his father-in-law when he tried to save them, is sentenced to at least 11 years in prison.

After having his unpaid parking tickets dismissed in court, Alan Charlton is calling for the City of Launceston to turn off its parking meters. Now he is eyeing off a class action, with the Tasmanian government in his sights.

In Tasmania's far north-west, 17 per cent of the population identifies as Aboriginal and some fear their voices will not be heard if the Voice to Parliament referendum passes. 

Dan Bell will never forget the day he had to help save the life of a colleague who'd been stabbed by a patient at Tasmania's North West Regional Hospital. It made him question his future as an emergency department nurse.  

Weeks after seeing her GP about post-menopausal bleeding, Vicki Purnell was under the knife having several organs removed. She's calling for more attention on gynaecological cancers.

Tasmania is a beacon for those wanting to immerse themselves in wild and woolly places. But multiple rescues in recent months have been a sobering reminder that it's not always a walk in the park.

Search crews secured to ropes wade through fast-moving water at a Tasmanian waterfall near where Belgian tourist Celine Cremer is believed missing, but fail to find any sign of her.

Efforts to find a missing Belgian tourist will now turn to swift water searching at a remote waterfall in Tasmania, a week after she was reported missing — with authorities working to "find some answers for Celine's family".

Police searching for missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer say a hiker in the area has responded to a plea to come forward to help with any further information about her movements.

A man who died after being hit by a train in Tasmania's north-west early on Monday morning was homeless, police say.

Residents at a caravan park fear they will be forced onto a tight rental market as plans progress to convert it into a beachside resort. 

For years, Aardvark Adventures has sent abseilers over the edge of a spectacularly high dam in Tasmania's south-west. But the business has been asked to undergo safety testing before it can renew its licence, and its owner-operator wants the state government to help pay for it.

Deborah Thomson is drawing on nearly two decades of family violence in a book she hopes will answer questions people might be too afraid or too uncomfortable to ask about domestic abuse.

A volunteer group that's helped make residents of a Tasmanian nursing home feel comfortable and looked after for 45 years is closing because its members are ageing and it can't find new recruits.

Flinders Island only has one childcare facility and it's full. That's affecting the whole community, forcing some parents to confront the possibility of leaving altogether.

Shayla Marshall says giving birth at Tasmania's North West Private Hospital was a lonely and traumatising experience that left her feeling like she "didn't want to be a mum".

Tenants caught up in the housing crisis are being advised to stay in their rentals after being served with notices to vacate so they can buy more time to search for new accommodation.  

Concerns over a contentious $715 million stadium and the government's priorities have pushed two Tasmanian MPs to quit the Liberal Party and sit as independents, ending Premier Jeremy Rockliff's majority.

Young Tasmanian Josiah McGlasson is eager to get his driver's licence, but the closing down of a free national program will make that difficult, with one instructor baffled as to why an alternative was not put in place before it ended.

Cesar Penuela says he started to cry when told that years of uncertainty and stress were over and the immigration minister had intervened to allow he and his family to stay in Australia.