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Courts and Crime

Thieves swipe $50,000 in cigarettes from Eastern Shore stores

Police have launched an investigation after thieves reportedly swiped around $50,000 in cigarettes from Eastern Shore stores in recent weeks. Several business are believed to have been targeted by the burglars, including a Bellerive service station, a Lauderdale bottle shop and a Lindisfarne supermarket. Detective Sergeant Boyd from Bellerive CIB said the offenders, who have “no regard for […]

Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 3:42pm

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29-year-old arrested in Bridgewater drug and firearm bust

A Bridgewater man allegedly found with more than 5 dozen cannabis plants and multiple firearms has been charged. The 29-year-old was hit with charges for drug and firearm offences after a search of a northern suburbs property on Monday. Detective Sergeant Boyd from Bellerive CIB said officers located over 70 cannabis plants and five firearms, including three that […]

Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 3:32pm

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Hobart’s new scrambled pedestrian crossings are an ‘absolute disaster’

Hobart’s small businesses are suffering from ‘bad traffic management’ decisions, ‘disastrous’ road closures and ‘congestion-causing crossings’, one local businesses association says. Edwin Johnstone from the Confederation of Greater Hobart Business is calling on the Hobart City Council to step in and fix the city’s traffic situation, warning that things are ‘only going to get worse’ […]

Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 9:55am

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All day breakfast: Hobart Rotarians cook up an end to Polio

Rotarians are encouraging the Tasmanian community to support efforts to eradicate polio today on World Polio Day. Rotary says thanks to their international ‘End Polio Now’ campaign, the once-rampant worldwide epidemic is now nearing ‘complete eradication,’ only confined to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Roslyn Teirney, a representative of Rotary Tasmania, says that even though cases remain […]

Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 4:50am

Courts and Crime

Hobart man didn’t know police were watching when he bought $50k of cocaine

A Hobart man who got caught up in a Police surveillance operation while out buying cocaine to share with his friends three days before Christmas in 2018 will most likely not spend any time in jail. In his passing comments on the sentence, Chief Justice Alan Blow said then 23-year-old Jordyn Jack Webb visited drug dealers from […]

Tue Oct 24, 2023 - 4:00am

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‘Bad morning’ turns into $1.8 million lotto win for Hobart man

A Hobart man says his life has been ‘turned upside down’ after winning over $1.8 million in Saturday’s Lotto. Tasmania’s newest millionaire, he was one of 11 division one winners nationwide in Saturday’s draw and took home a total prize of $1,818,181.82. When Lotto officials called him on Monday morning, he said that he had ‘absolutely […]

Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 12:30pm

Courts and Crime

26 computers, iPhones, car stolen: Suspect charged in Hobart building robbery

A Tasmanian man has been charged after he allegedly spent his weekend stealing 26 computers, iPhones, specialist engineering equipment, tools, furniture and a car from a building on Macquarie Street. The 29-year-old is believed to have “unlawfully entered” the Hobart CBD building late on Friday night, where he made off with a ‘substantial amount of […]

Mon Oct 23, 2023 - 9:38am

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More details revealed after devastating Hobart hotel fire

Investigators have revealed the fire which engulfed parts of Hobart’s Zero Davey hotel & apartment overnight started in the ground floor kitchen of the building. The fire broke out around midnight on Saturday morning, with seven TFS crews racing to the scene on what was already an ‘extremely busy’ night of callouts. TFS Deputy Regional […]

Sun Oct 22, 2023 - 3:03pm

Road Incidents

Reckless teen p-plater hits 185km/h in 110km/h zone while fleeing police

A teenage driver who recklessly fled from police at 75km/h over the speed limit in the early hours of Saturday morning is set to face court. The 17-year-old was allegedly caught speeding at a staggering 185km/h in a 110km/h zone on the Midlands Highway shortly after midnight on Saturday. When officers attempted to pull the […]

Sun Oct 22, 2023 - 9:00am

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Firefighters rush to Hobart roof blaze in lightning storm

UPDATE – 2 PM: MORE DETAILS REVEALED. CLICK HERE FOR MORE. EARLIER: Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire on the roof of the Zero Davey building after it was reportedly struck by lightning. The Tasmania Fire Service tell Pulse a structure on the roof ‘has been impacted’ and crews from Hobart, Glenorchy and Clarence are […]

Sun Oct 22, 2023 - 12:15am