Hobart News

People on a busy Hobart street rush to help emergency workers lift a car off a man who was fatally hit while getting into a parked car while his wife was waiting inside.

Chocolate-maker Cadbury's decision to shed 40 jobs from its Tasmanian factory, replacing workers with machines, is met with anger, disappointment and despair.

Chocolate-maker Cadbury announces 40 jobs will go from its Hobart factory over the next four months.

Some of the world's most incredible creatures return to the remote island to raise their families at this time of year, when temperatures start to rise above zero.

A developer withdraws controversial plans for an 82-room hotel, restaurant and convention centre for the top of Rosny Hill on Hobart's eastern shore.

With male candidates outnumbering females by almost two to one at next month's Tasmanian local government elections, one young hopeful says she nominated because she was sick of "old, boring men making decisions about things they don't understand or care about".

The location of one of Hobart's key historical tourist attractions, the replica of Mawson's Hut, has been earmarked for development for decades, with stakeholders now asking why there is continued secrecy over the future of Civic Square.

Spotted handfish only found in Hobart's River Derwent warm to artificial breeding habitats crafted by a ceramic artist, with joy and relief at the news the project seems to have worked.

The Australian wool industry's research and development body defends its call for farmers to pay a 2 per cent wool tax, as several farm lobby groups call for a reduced levy.

For many millennials, working in aged care might not be a career they have considered, but it is an industry that is expected to require 5,000 extra workers in Tasmania by 2025.

A light plane, last seen by a fisherman somewhere above Tasmania's Great Lake, is missing and with its 57-year-old pilot — that is the fictional scenario faced by police, surf lifesavers, the SES and mounted search and rescue teams at a training exercise.

No trace of it remains, but Hobart's Domain was once home to a grand building so large it covered 11 acres and took one million feet of hardwood to construct.

Three tiger sharks are shot and killed after being caught in drum lines in the Whitsunday Islands in north Queensland, where two tourists nearly bled to death after being mauled within 24 hours of each other.

The Tasmanian agriculture sector is celebrating a resurgence in farm education as the Government moves to shore up its long-term vision for one of the island's most valuable industries.

Dancing is the answer to beating old age, according to a troupe of Tasmanian baby boomers who are about to perform at a festival in Japan.

There are only a few dozen orange-bellied parrots left alive in the wild, so this species will be flown to Tasmania by plane, rather than migrating naturally, in a desperate effort to prevent their extinction.

A Tasmanian girl says she's shocked a letter she placed in a bottle two years ago has been found washed up on a Queensland beach more than 2,000 kilometres away.

A Hobart man who burnt down the Peacock Centre mental health facility in 2016 will he held indefinitely for treatment at a secure unit at the Risdon Prison complex.

Frustrations between traders on Elizabeth Street in North Hobart and Uber Eats drivers are likely to end in violence and will be "a bloodshed in the finish", the local newsagent says.

A 36-year-old man accused of killing a seven-year-old Tasmanian boy on Mount Lloyd is granted bail.

From railway tracks to the middle of roundabouts, plovers aren't fussy about where they call home.

While the Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister front up to the cameras, strawberry growers are taking aim at government agencies for creating what they describe as "hysteria" over the strawberry needle crisis.

Strawberry farmers are set to receive a $1 million Federal Government relief package as the industry buckles under the strawberry contamination crisis.

The Prime Minister says the bed block situation at the Royal Hobart Hospital is not okay, as management proposes to move patients being discharged or transferred from beds to chairs and give them a bell "to attract attention".

The head of LJ Hooker Commercial, Mark Devine, welcomes plans to move the site's sewerage treatment plant but says the need for the announcement was clear several years ago.