Loretta Lohberger

After years of delays and cost blowouts, Spirit of Tasmania IV has arrived in its home port of Devonport for testing ahead of October sailings.

A parliamentary inquiry, proposed by the Tasmanian government, will examine aspects of the sale of the state's largest farm to a UK investment firm that has plans for a large pine plantation on the site.

As legislation to ban greyhound racing in Tasmanian remains stalled, a handful of racing participants have expressed interest in joining a compensation scheme to leave the industry.

With the Hawthorn Hawks' state-sponsored home games in Launceston to stop after next season, there's a mix of sadness, nostalgia and hope.

Police were called to a house in Exeter, where they say a woman had received "serious stab wounds". A short time later, the man who police believe inflicted the wounds died in a car crash, which also left a third person seriously injured.  

The brother of Royal Hobart Hospital doctor Artyom Avetisyan says the cardiothoracic surgery registrar sounded "extremely exhausted" in the week before his crash death.

Michael Tate — an academic, politician, diplomat and Catholic priest — has been remembered as a generous man whose life was one of "warmth and service to others".

Former Tasmanian senator and Catholic priest Michael Tate, who made the move from politics to the priesthood, has been remembered as "someone who gives himself to his people".

Tasmania's Natural Resources and Environment Department has confirmed the antibiotic florfenicol was detected at a 'low level' in wild seafood 14 kilometres from where the drug was administered.

Two southern Tasmanian primary health services have been thrown a one-year lifeline, but the state government says it wants the federal government to step in and fund the programs beyond that.