Alexandra Alvaro

Renee Ferguson is given eight months’ home detention — and will be forced to relocate back to Tasmania — for stealing over $5,000 in cricket membership fees.

Tasmanians are lucky to share their backyards with a range of native species, and one citizen science project — with 100,000 images — is proving it.

The rate of suicide for ex-service women is 127 per cent higher than the general population. Despite the alarming statistic, and the diverse experiences of women in the military, female veterans are finding it hard to find targeted support.

Many veterans need help adjusting when they return home. But for Tasmanians, that often means spending weeks interstate getting treatment.

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it’s different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.

A Hobart nightclub bouncer did not act in self-defence when he punched an ejected patron, who now needs 24-hour care for mental and physical disabilities, a court finds.

When Michael’s wife died in 2016, some of her estate went to a conservation fund. When Michael dies, some of his estate will go to the fund, too. They are among an increasing number of people leaving bequests to environmental causes.

Plans to build a paved runway near Davis Station in Antarctica were announced in 2017. The project was scrapped in 2021 — but not before $19 million was spent on consultants.

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Trust in those in government may be falling, but it doesn't mean Tasmanian voters aren't engaging in politics.

The office of former Tasmanian police minister Michael Ferguson received a police briefing note warning of child sex allegations against a senior officer before the force held a police funeral and full guard of honour for him, documents obtained by RTI show.

The parents of Ashton Jones, who was 34 when he was stabbed to death by a neighbour, tell the Supreme Court in Hobart of their grief.

Hobart man Caleb Adams will serve a prison sentence for manslaughter. The court has heard Adams was 'justifiably scared' when 34 year old Ashton Jones invaded his home, but that he had responded disproportionately to the event.

The Tasmanian Education Department and one of its former teachers have been ordered to pay victim-survivor of child sexual abuse, Katrina Munting, combined damages of more than $2 million for abuse she suffered in the late 1990s. 

An airport search found 28 grams of the drug ice on a man, hidden in toys and concealed in bags containing Lego, Tasmania Police allege.

A Tasmanian woman will spend three years in jail after encouraging her husband to attack their neighbour with a chainsaw.

A man who stabbed his ex-wife to death on Christmas Day in 2021 will serve at least 17 years in prison — a sentence which is nowhere near long enough, the woman's grieving loved ones say.

The Tasmanian coroner is scathing about the testimony of a man who, when a practising doctor, administered drugs which the court has found brought about the death of his mother, just 48 hours after his father died.

Victoria Police say they will be relentless in pursuing those responsible for a string of suspicious fires across Melbourne overnight, with one man already arrested over a fire in Richmond.

It was a Wednesday morning in Rome when Italian police received an Interpol red notice from Victorian police. Within two days, Perry Kouroumblis would be under arrest for the killings of two Australian women almost five decades ago.