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Community celebrates after Greenpoint Medical Centre saved from shutdown

Bridgewater residents are celebrating after their campaign to keep the region’s only local medical centre open was successful. Greenpoint Medical Centre will continue to operate under new management come come December, a result that has delighted the clinics 8,000 patients. Many happy locals joined Labor MP Jen Butler to celebrate the news on Friday morning following […]

Sat Nov 11, 2023 - 5:00am
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Hobart’s Lord Mayor makes ‘final plea’ for $7 million to save hydrotherapy pool project

Hobart’s Lord Mayor is making “one last plea” to both the federal and state governments, hoping they will step in to fill a $7 million funding hole required for the construction of a new pool. The ‘much-needed’ warm-water hydrotherapy pool project at the Doone Kennedy Aquatic Centre has been uncertain for months after the only […]

Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 10:00am
Courts and Crime

Arrest made after activist chains herself to gate in Swift parrot conservation standoff

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 - 8:35am
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Prime retail spots at new Brighton Shopping Complex hit the market

Commercial 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 - 5:00am
Courts and Crime

Coroner blames ‘confusion over road signs’ for fatal Ulverstone crash

A 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 - 4:00am
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Fresh sinkhole opens up on Hobart’s Molle Street within weeks of first

Another 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 - 10:00pm
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Bridgewater’s only medical centre saved from closure by Your Hobart Doctor

After 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 - 6:40pm
Courts and Crime

Man found with $150,000 cash stuffed in luggage arrested at Hobart Airport

A 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 - 5:05pm
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Council removes Hobart’s iconic ‘big blue slide’ from Parliament Street playground

The 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 - 4:35pm
Courts and Crime

Hobart family desperately searching for grandparent’s stolen ashes

A 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 […]

Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 1:50pm