It’s the end of an era for Hobart’s McCann’s Music Centre as their Elizabeth Street shopfront gets cleared out for good after an impressive 88-year stint. The iconic instrument dealer has called the corner of Elizabeth and Melville Streets home since 1935, with its roots dating back to 1881 when it was initially established and […]
Sat Dec 9, 2023 - 5:00amA Bridgewater woman has been charged with allegedly sexually abusing a teenager over a three-year period. The 45-year-old is accused of committing the crimes against a teenage boy when he was between the ages of 14 and 17. Police say the arrest was made following extensive investigations by detectives from the Bellerive Criminal Investigation Branch […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 3:40pmTasmania Police are investigating reports of a suspicious man in a white van who allegedly approached a child while they were walking to school in the Sandy Bay area this week. The primary school student from Waimea Heights Primary School alerted their parents following the incident on Tuesday morning when a “man they didn’t know” in […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 12:25pmA boy with autism now lives with a “constant fear of being attacked” after his 12th birthday was ruined by armed men who pushed their way into his family home during the celebrations. Jaidon Glen Polden, then 18, was one of four men armed with a handgun, knife, taser and knuckledusters when they carried out […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 9:30amThe only manned petrol station in the West Coast town of Strahan is set get back up and running in early 2024. The town has been without a manned petrol station since April when BP shut up shop for redevelopment, leaving just a single pump at the airport as only option for fuel. Lowes Petroleum […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 8:00amTasmania’s new AFL team could have its first confirmed future location for a new $70 million High Performance Centre as early as next week, with the Clarence City Council set to vote on whether to locate it at Rosny on Monday. A report to councillors has identified Charles Hand Park, next to Rosny College, as the preferred […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 12:05amA Tasmanian shop owner had recently lost her husband just four weeks before a devastating blaze tore through and destroyed their small-town general store. Kerrie Sinclair had battled through road closures, the challenges of COVID-19 and floods to keep the doors of the Nunamara General Store open for the past 22 years before the business […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 7:50pmHobart’s Goods Shed stands in the way of the proposed Macquarie Point stadium and its fate could be influenced by an application to consider the 1915 railway building for permanent heritage listing. The Tasmanian Heritage Council assessed the century-old structure during a Wednesday night meeting and are believed to have started the process for its […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 6:10pmHobart’s Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds has received a caution for breaching the code of conduct during an interaction with now-Councillor Louise Elliot at a public meeting last year. The meeting was held to discuss the University of Tasmania’s intention to move its campus from Sandy Bay to the CBD, during which Ms Elliot spoke against the […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 3:25pmHobart teenager Isabelle Corbin has set the bar for grand entrances to school events by touching down at her Year 12 St Michael’s Collegiate school formal in a helicopter. The aspiring rescue helicopter pilot and daughter of the late Rotorlift founder Roger Corbin, flew the helicopter to her leavers dinner at Wrest Point with the […]
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