A Bob Brown Foundation ‘forest defender’ has been arrested at a logging site in southern Tasmania while attempting to save the endangered Swift parrot. A 63-year-old woman was taken into custody on Thursday morning and charged after she allegedly chained herself to a gate at the Kermandie Divide logging site. The Nubeena woman was charged […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 8:35amSocial media has been flooded with photos of a ‘UFO-looking’ cloud that appeared over Hobart on Wednesday. The cloud appeared as a storm front moved across greater Hobart, accompanied by approximately 10,000 lightning strikes and a torrential downpour of 40mm of rain in one east coast in just one hour. A spokesperson from the Bureau […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 7:00amCommercial space at a brand new shopping centre in Hobart’s northern suburbs has just been put up for lease. The newly built Brighton Shopping Complex, anchored by a new IGA Supermarket, is expected to be completed in the coming months. According to Knight Frank, the 162 Brighton Road project will be “transformative for the local […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 5:00amA driver who travelled down the wrong side of a northern Tasmanian road before crashing into another vehicle ‘may have been confused’ by signage on the road, a Coroner has ruled. 71-year-old Geraldine May Phillips passed away at the scene of a head-on collision on Westella Drive, adjacent to the Bass Highway, in Ulverstone in […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 4:00amAnother sinkhole has opened up on a busy Hobart Street, just weeks after a previous sinkhole was discovered. The City of Hobart located the latest hole on Molle Street, close to where the last sinkhole was found late last month. However, the council has said that this one “will not result in any lane closures”. […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 10:00pmAfter months of dedicated rallying and campaigning by the local community, a medical centre in Hobart’s northern suburbs has been saved from closure. Your Hobart Doctor plans to step in and take over Bridgewater’s Greenpoint Medical Centre from IPN ‘sometime next month’, offering a lifeline to the local community, which had feared being left without […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 6:40pmA man who allegedly attempted to fly from Hobart to Sydney with over $150,000 in cash hidden inside his luggage has been arrested and charged. The 38-year-old Sydney man and former Olympian, Luke Christopher Jackson, was allegedly found with the ‘substantial amount of money’ concealed in his checked bag during a routine baggage check on […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 5:05pmThe City of Hobart has removed the iconic ‘big blue slide’ from Sandy Bay’s Parliament Street reserve. Council’s City Life Director Karen Abey says the removal follows an inspection last month where the slide was found to be unsafe. “The inspection found it had deteriorated to the point it could not be repaired and presented […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 4:35pmAnother lightning storm is sweeping across Tasmania’s Midlands and West Coast regions this afternoon, less than 24 hours after the previous storm battered the state. On Wednesday afternoon, approximately 10,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Tasmania, with more expected today. According to BOM lightning tracking data, the storm is currently centred east of Ross and […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 4:30pmA desperate family are searching for their grandparent’s ashes after they were allegedly stolen from a Hobart cemetery recently. Speaking to Pulse, the family says they have been left “absolutely shattered that anyone could stoop to this level” after the theft of their loved ones from the Cornelian Bay cemetery. They believe the ashes of […]
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