Bec Pridham

Tasmania is in the throes of a housing crisis, and women and children are particularly vulnerable, according to a recent report. Advocates are especially concerned for those experiencing family violence, calling housing a “key piece of the puzzle”.

A new organic waste processing plant in Tasmania’s north-west means more households will be able to have food and garden waste, known as FOGO, collected. But it’s not always easy to offer these types of services in regional communities.

For a while it looked like the penguin-themed bins in the tiny coastal hamlet of Penguin were set to be trashed — but after a community outcry, it looks like they are here to stay.

A coroner finds Isaiah Dixon, Bree-Anna Thomas and Thomas Courto’s drownings off Tasmania’s north-west coast to be “wholly avoidable”.

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.

Burnie woman Jordi Apted lived with the “crippling pain” of endometriosis for years before getting surgery through the private health system. She hopes other women don’t have to share that experience.

For the third election in a row, the Tasmanian Liberal Party comes under fire for its handling of taxpayer-funded community grants, with an integrity expert calling its actions "pork barrelling, plain and simple".

The unique sinkhole in Tasmania's remote north-west was meant to be a much-needed tourism drawcard for the area. Instead, the site has fallen into disrepair, leaving locals shocked at its condition. 

Thousands of passengers have flown in and out of Tasmania's north without aviation firefighters on hand, a union claims, calling it "extremely dangerous" and accusing the responsible government body of breaching its safety requirements.

The operator of a jumping castle that killed six children after being lifted into the air pleads not guilty to a related safety charge in a northern Tasmanian court.