Clancy Balen

A coroner has found a doctor's prescription of drugs to two drug-dependent patients had a "direct causative role" in their deaths. Their report says the doctor had a "permissive approach to opioid prescribing" for more than two decades.

The federal, Tasmanian and South Australian governments have contributed to a new funding package for Nyrstar's Hobart and Port Pirie smelters, including money for feasibility studies into modernising and expanding their operations.

Tasmania's cool climate and access to renewable energy has made it an attractive place for AI data centre investment, but energy industry voices are warning that the business case for the Marinus Link project appears increasingly unviable if power-hungry players such as AI data centres continue to expand across the state.

An economist says Marinus Link remains an investment in the national interest and will shore up Tasmania's energy security. It follows a report last week questioning the project's business case.

Experts say it is a matter of when, not if, a deadly strain of bird flu reaches Tasmania, and popular marine visitor Neil the seal is not isolated from the threat, despite his relatively solo lifestyle.

More than five tonnes of antibiotics were used to treat a disease that killed 9,000 tonnes of fish last summer, Salmon Tasmania says.

Vaccinations for the rare but potentially deadly meningococcal B disease are now free for all Tasmanian infants for the next four years.

An Aboriginal activist has told a Tasmanian court she has a cultural obligation to "protect lands that are being slaughtered", after she was charged with trespassing while protesting in a logging coupe.

For more than 30 years, John O'Toole has quietly helped build a local soccer club. On Sunday, he surpassed his 600th match while playing alongside his sons.

Australia's only manganese alloy smelter has closed, leaving the future of the site uncertain and the country more reliant on imported alloys for steel production.