An expert says there is virtually nothing passengers can do once they are aboard a bed bug infested flight but suggests places where to start looking for the critters.
Emergency crews were called to the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie on Saturday night after reports of a fire in the inpatient mental health unit.
A Tasmanian woman will never be allowed to own a cat again, after almost 70 cats were found living in "squalid" conditions and a dozen kittens were found dead in her freezer.
The Human Rights Law Centre says a restrictive parole condition that stopped Sue Neill-Fraser from being able to claim her innocence in the media has been removed after a court challenge.
Former professional cricketer Aaron Summers will spend 10 months in prison after being sentenced for sexually abusing a child in Tasmania. He has previously spent time in prison in the NT for online child abuse-related charges.
It has been almost five years since Romany Wake's father murdered her mother, Rachel, on Christmas Day — and the 24-year-old is yet to be free from the legal ordeal.
A new live-in internship program on the Tasman Peninsula is working to repopulate the area's endangered giant kelp forests through underwater gardening.
