Meet the woman exploring Tasmania's ghostly past
Sharmaine Mansfield is using present-day technology to explore the historic hauntings of some of the state's most fascinating sites.
View ArticleA butcher for 70 years
Neville Parker has been a butcher for 70 years and says its regular cups of tea that keep him going.
View ArticleTrial Harbour locals warn of shark danger
Locals want signs warning that washed up whales have made it unsafe for surfers and divers visiting the west coast town.
View Article'Dangerous' changes to paramedic pay will leave remote ambulance stations...
The Tasmanian health union says changes to paramedics' travel allowance payments are leaving some remote ambulance stations unable to respond to call-outs for hours at a time, prompting warnings...
View ArticleGravel and Mud: Stories of football in Tasmania's wild west
Some great footballers cut their teeth on Queenstown gravel. And everybody cut their knees.
View ArticleLocals snap up Tasmanian real estate as market continues to soar
Tasmania's real estate market records its strongest growth since 2002, with median house prices on the north-west coast jumping almost 30 per cent in the past year — but the flip side for renters is...
View Article'Famously bad weather': Why some in the bushwalking community think this plan...
It is the bush walking project the Tasmanian government hopes will cement the island state as a must-visit destination for hikers, but there is one major cloud hanging over the plan — the region's...
View ArticleHow can one side of an island get far more rain than the other?
Meteorologists tend to refer to stream weather quite frequently in Tasmania — but what is it? And how does it makes the west wet, and the east dry?
View ArticleSnow joke, this is classic Tasmanian spring weather
"Don't plant tomatoes before Show Day" — so the saying goes in Tasmania. Well, Show Day was three weeks ago, and those poor little tomato plants could soon be covered in snow.
View Article'Mindless acts of vandalism': Tasmanian Aboriginal groups call for greater...
Damage to two sacred Aboriginal art sites on Tasmania's west coast sparks renewed calls for harsher penalties and surveillance — with advocates rejecting a government explanation of what happened.
View Article83yo jailed for attacking housemates after they said they wanted to move out
A Zeehan man who attacked his two housemates with a hatchet after they told him they wanted to move out has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail.
View ArticleBay of Fires drama sparks winter boom on Tasmania's west coast
From treading the boards on Tasmanian stages as a teenager — via starring in hit television series in New York — actor Toby Leonard Moore is back in the state he used to call home.
View ArticleLack of childcare, family housing throttles town's boom after mine reopens
Bryan Soriano was the head chef at the local pub in his regional town. He had to quit because he couldn't get childcare for his daughter.
View ArticleAn early look at the new mountain bike trail network opening near Zeehan in...
A trail building crew who survived a winter in the Heemskirk Range, west of Zeehan are now powering towards a December opening for their 30km of spectacular new mountain bike trails. It's a significant...
View ArticleTasmania's Heemskirk mountain bike trail network set to open before Christmas
The remote and "adventurous" bike trail network descends a 30km mountain ridge line on Tasmania's West Coast, with a launch date of December 10.
View ArticleCrayfisherman reflects on life and death at sea on Tasmania's west coast
West coast Tasmanian crayfisherman Dave Kiely looks back on friends lost and uniquely wild experiences gained as he retires from the business after 40 years.
View ArticleRaw beauty, extreme danger: the beautifully free life of a west coast...
Dave ‘Charlie’ Kiely is retiring after 40 years in one of the more dangerous professions in the country — crayfishing off the west coast of Tasmania.
View ArticleDemand for electric vehicles offers hope for mothballed Tasmanian nickel mine
The booming EV industry may give a West Coast Tasmanian mine a lifeline after languishing in care and maintenance mode for 13 years.
View ArticleThey were once stranded, now two rescued animals are having a whale of a time
Months on from a mass whale stranding on Tasmania's west coast, researchers say all the effort saving and refloating 44 of them has paid off with electronic trackers confirming they are thriving.
View ArticleTasmania's salmon farm industry has lost its 'social licence', minister says,...
The Tasmanian government says critics of industrial fish farming are a "noisy minority". But some restaurants have dropped salmon from their menu over environmental concerns and that isn't about to...
View ArticleConfronted by a lack of interesting female stories, Marta Dusseldorp is...
Marta Dusseldorp, who starred in Janet King and A Place to Call Home, has become a producer and is focused on creating female-led stories, like the new TV show Bay of Fires.
View ArticleCommunity in remote region finding a way to tackle childcare staffing shortage
Adel Farr was prepared to leave her beloved west coast community in Tasmania to follow her career aspirations of working with children. Then she found out she didn't have to.
View Article'Entire community is in shock' after Tasmanian council worker killed in...
Emergency services were called to a park in Zeehan on Monday afternoon where a council worker was found under a mower.
View ArticleTasmanian town grapples with 'gut-wrenching' impending mine closure
The return of Avebury Nickel Mine came with the promise of an economic boon for Zeehan on Tasmania's west coast. But less than 18 months later, the community is grappling with imminent job losses.
View ArticleTasmania is riddled with hundreds of fading and vanishing towns. Where did...
On Tasmania's wild west coast, towns have risen and fallen at the whim of industry. Some of their oldest living inhabitants remember their former homes, and how their communities came undone.
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