Guy Stayner

The AFL’s platitudes about Tasmania deserving an AFL team, without any timeline for the state to actually get one, have rightly been met with derision, writes Guy Stayner.

One of Tasmania’s main hospitals seeks approval for staff who are close contacts to continue working, as Omicron causes dozens of workers to isolate.

One family, three generations, three holes-in-one — on the same course, at the same hole and with the same club. Can anyone beat that?

Imagine you have just become the youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest — you’d probably relax and enjoy the moment? Not Gabby Kanizay, who the very next day climbed the world’s fourth-highest mountain.

More than two and a half years into the pandemic, nurses are needed more than ever — but many are burnt out and fatigued, and some are even leaving the industry.

The use of a “restrictive covenant” — which excludes use of the land for public housing at a new Tasmanian real estate development — has been condemned by housing advocates.

The Tasmanian Tigers are preparing to take on South Australia in the women's cricket final. And, with most of the players joining from interstate, the squad is beating a path for a future AFL team that would likewise need to recruit from around the country.

Isabel Sutherland plays two rounds of golf a week and walks about seven kilometres each time. She says it’s her key to keeping fit and mobile.

The Tasmania JackJumpers entered the National Basketball League three years ago then won a maiden title on Sunday. Club chief Christine Finnegan says she wants to give a leg up to startup AFL club the Tasmania Devils.

Tasmania's fledgling AFL team, the Devils, will have a $5 million signing bonus pool in addition to the salary cap to help lure players from interstate. It's one of the many draft concessions released by the AFL for the team's entry to the national league.