Weekend and fill-in 7 Tasmania newsreader Louise Houbaer has announced her second pregnancy. Delivering her baby news alongside long-standing weather man Peter ‘Murph’ Murphy, Houbaer said she is nearly in her third trimester. The news comes just over 2 years since Louise and husband Dave welcomed their daughter Matilda, who was born on September 7 2021. […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 2:23pmAn emergency warning has been reinstated for two townships on Flinders Island this morning as a large bushfire continues to burn on the island. Residents in Pine Creek and Leeka are urged to leave immediately if it is safe to do so, while people near Killiecrankie and Killiecrankie Road should prepare to leave. The Tasmania Fire Service […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 8:45amI wish she was here to see this’: Hit 100.9 Hobart breakfast co-host Christie Hayes was moved to tears while discussing the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this morning. Stopping to chat with breakfast duo Dan and Christie during his trip to Hobart, the Prime Minister spoke at […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 8:26amKingborough’s Mayor says it’s ‘not worth the risk’ to leave certain public toilets in the region open all night after a recent string of vandalism started to become ‘too expensive to fix’. At a council meeting on Monday night, Mayor Paula Wriedt said the ‘final straw’ came when around $40,000 to $50,000 worth of damage […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 5:00amDesigns have been revealed for a new $10.5 million Bridgewater police station that would see the existing station, police house and other buildings demolished. The upgrade would increase the area of the proposed 6.5m, one-story high station from 847sqm to 1889sqm. If approved, Bridgewater police officers would operate from temporary premises at Glenorchy Police Station […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 4:30amA Tasmanian distillery is facing demands to hand back their historic site after the local council terminated its lease due to unpaid rent. The New Norfolk Distillery allegedly owes over $100,000 in rent to the Derwent Valley Council for three buildings in the Willow Court asylum heritage precinct, a spot that has become a popular […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 4:00amA young justice studies student was drunk, using her mobile phone and driving an unregistered car in a crash that could have claimed her life, a court has heard. 20-year-old Lucy Rose Waud rolled her car multiple times in April this year after she crossed to the wrong side of the road and collided with an embankment. In […]
Tue Oct 3, 2023 - 3:30amPolice have launched an urgent search for missing 46-year-old Phillip Reibel tonight. The Queenstown man was last seen in the East Devonport area on Sunday and police say the now hold concerns for his welfare. Reibel is described as being 170cm tall, medium build, unshaven with shoulder length grey hair and is believed to have been […]
Mon Oct 2, 2023 - 10:10pmThe bushfire burning on Flinders Island came within 30m of the island’s main telecommunications tower, a Telstra spokesperson has told Pulse. Telstra say the fire has caused “radiant heat damage” to their Mt Tanner tower, which provides telecommunications services and emergency TasGRN communications to the island. Mains power was cut to the tower at 5pm […]
Mon Oct 2, 2023 - 8:26pmThese are the horrifying scenes on Flinders Island at the moment as residents are forced to evacuate from some parts of the island. Images taken by locals near the fire ground show a thick plume of smoke billowing from the West End Road area in the island’s north. Pine Scrub and Leeka are being evacuated, […]
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