Meg Whitfield

A Tasmanian artist who built a fire bunker on her property in Tasmania has been fined, for failing to have the permit for its installation.

An aged care facility has failed to get an emergency guardianship order for a Tasmanian resident accused of increasingly aggressive behaviour, which included pushing a woman who later died from a fracture sustained in the incident.

Australia is facing a national GP shortage. Tasmania is hoping a new incentive plan, to wipe HECS debts or provide a relocation payment, means they will choose the island state — but, there is a catch.

For months, a community push has been growing for international student Dev Deka to be granted permanent residency after an alleged assault left him as a paraplegic. The federal immigration minister says he's "looking into it".

A survey of women who have done field work in the Arctic and Antarctic has found 79 per cent had a negative experience. The report's authors say "broad cultural and institutional changes" are needed.

Friends and family help Devarshi Deka celebrate his birthday — but say the greatest gift he could receive is to be allowed to remain in Australia after being left with disabilities following an alleged assault in Hobart.

Recent incidents of vandalism and violence has shaken Hobart's taxi workforce — and they've had enough. It's an issue the Multicultural Council of Tasmania says needs a 'collective effort' to fix.

Would you go into business with a sibling? From a winery to cheesemakers, these Tasmanian entrepreneurs have had a crack, and it's paying off.

A red-tailed black cockatoo and a musk lorikeet have become inseparable, with the smaller bird often found under the wing of the cockatoo at Tasmania's Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary.

Despite endometriosis impacting one in nine women or people assigned female at birth in Australia, it takes an average of six-and-a-half years to get a diagnosis — if at all. New "one-stop shop" clinics are aimed at addressing those wait times.

The Tasmania JackJumpers are celebrating their maiden championship title win with fans in Hobart after winning the final game 83-81 in Melbourne on Sunday.

Kelvin was gifted a piano by a woman who was happy for him to have it for nothing as long as he played it in scenic locations — now, after performances on a beach, in a forest and atop a dam wall, it's time for a rest.

Researchers say they have found dangerous chemicals in little penguin habitat and populations around Tasmania.

Max Giuliani trailed Ian Thorpe's Australian record by a few milliseconds at the Queensland state championships. But he isn't resting on his laurels, with his eyes firmly set on the Paris Summer Olympics.

A man who fatally stabbed a young woman in an act of "random violence committed against a stranger" is sentenced to life in prison by a Tasmanian court.

Plans to build 2,500 new homes in Hobart fell at the first hurdle earlier this year. But now the project has been given the green light by council, with proponents claiming it will "transform" the area. 

Houses are starting to be demolished in a project aimed at widening a major road into Hobart and to fix years of traffic congestion, but not all are convinced the plan will be enough. 

Jarnail has always felt at home in Tasmania. But for the last few months, he's been the target of ongoing racial abuse — but rather than cop it in silence, he is speaking out in the hope it helps others.

A parliamentary inquiry into ambulance ramping in Tasmania is told emergency department staff have walked away from the job over patient safety concerns, leaving a deficit of skilled workers to manage a strained healthcare system. 

Adel Farr was prepared to leave her beloved west coast community in Tasmania to follow her career aspirations of working with children. Then she found out she didn't have to.

As a person with multiple sclerosis, Meg knows "moving is the thing that keeps you going". In her home state, where rates for the disease are the highest in Australia, a new centre has opened to help her and others do that and more.

Until he saw one up close, Zach didn't know echidnas could be white. He didn't realise just how lucky he was to spot this rare animal in Tasmania's wilderness.

A deadly strain of bird flu that has already killed millions of seabirds across the world is likely to land on Antarctic shores this summer, threatening already struggling penguin colonies and marine mammals.

The state government is "considering" a request from TasRacing for more funding, after the cost of its new greyhound and harness racing project in Tasmania's north-west blew out to more than double the original estimate.

A Supreme Court judge rules a workplace safety investigation cannot be provided to the coroner investigating the tragedy while there is a possibility of criminal proceedings.