In Tasmania's deep south, a group regularly gathers to learn age-old skills of culling and "dressing" animals for meat and preserving fruit and vegetables. They say it's becoming more mainstream as the ethics and availability of food weighs on people's minds.

Tasmania's largest not-for-profit foster care organisation commits to the National Redress Scheme after the threat of a funding cut, but says its needs more government money to look after the 120 children in its care.

Smoking rates have dropped massively since the 70s — down from 40 per cent to only 14 per cent — but some areas of the country are not getting the message.

Three years ago baker Joshua Humphries was confronted at work by two masked men with a shotgun. He and others in the bakery still feel the impact and urge Tasmanians to take advantage of a police gun amnesty.

A woman killed in a housefire yesterday is remembered as a good friend and neighbour, as it emerges the fatal blaze started when a wheat bag was overheated in a microwave.

Tobias Bockholt and Marisa Schlichthorst had been following the tiny house movement online for years when, inspired by tiny house enthusiasts on Instagram, they purchased an old school bus.

Despite recent rain, and snow even in the past few days, soil moisture levels remain relatively low for large parts of the east and west coasts — and the BOM's latest outlook doesn't leave much room for optimism.

Amid international efforts to find a vaccine for the deadly pig virus, Australian authorities and industry are bracing for an outbreak that some pig farmers fear is "inevitable".

MORNING BRIEFING: New data reveals the animals most at risk of being hit or killed on Tasmanian roads, a former physician at Royal Hobart Hospital unloads on the handling of reports detailing health system failures, and charges are laid over a brutal bashing.

A case against a Tasmanian man accused of trying to procure a teenage boy for sex collapses after a judge rules evidence from a self-proclaimed "paedophile-hunter" is inadmissible.

It's the hideous hairdo your dad probably had in the 80s, and it's making a comeback according to hairdressers who say they're fielding requests for the mullet every week.

MORNING BRIEFING: Good snowfalls have Tasmanian ski enthusiasts hopeful it's a sign of things to come and two Tasmanian paramedics come to the aid of a tourist who suffered a heart attack atop Uluru.

Ordering a shot of coffee in Hobart can now be done using sign language at a new cafe catering for the hearing-impaired, and they have a special way of making sure the cafe isn't too noisy.

The Australian Education Union appears poised to backflip on its endorsement of the Tasmanian Government's wages and conditions offer over concerns about the significant pay cut it would include for relief teachers.

Tasmania's health system is failing to meet the growing demand for emergency department care and is severely compromising patient safety, according to a scathing report handed down by the state's auditor-general.

MORNING BRIEFING: A Tasmanian teenager who killed himself is remembered as "gentle and sensitive" by his father at an inquest, the state's motor vehicle registry is yet to cancel a single Wicked Camper registration under laws banning offensive slogans and snow is falling.

It's been a watering hole, a brothel and a nightclub, and soon it will be a boutique hotel. If the walls of this building could talk they'd have plenty of stories to tell.

It's a public memorial in the heart of Melbourne's CBD — but many are still unaware of the fate of the two Australian warriors who were hanged at that site more than 150 years ago.

A Tasmanian cave diving team navigates an unmapped, flooded, 200-metre-long passage to discover a link between Australia's deepest and third-deepest-known caves, and sets a new depth record in the process.

Proud pakana man Jason Thomas says his culture connects him to the sea and the land, it's in Aboriginal people "from the old people to the young", and that's why he wants to share it.

What questions keep you up at night about climate change? Through Curious Climate, Tasmanian residents can now ask scientists and researchers everything they would like to know.

An inquest hears a 16-year-old Tasmanian boy who took his own life had only left a mental health clinic days earlier, police use spikes to catch a speeding driver and a possum is revealed as the cause of a major blackout.

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