Dozens of North-West coasters gathered at Prem’s Seafood Bar and Grill in Devonport this Christmas Eve, where owner Prema Smith well and truly fulfilled his promise to spread some festive cheer. Embracing the spirit of giving, Smith stood outside his restaurant from 5pm on Sunday, offering free fish & chips and prawns to anyone in […]
Mon Dec 25, 2023 - 11:14amFireworks won’t illuminate New Year’s celebrations for those gathered on Burnie’s foreshore this year, with the local council instead opting for an ‘environmentally friendly’ LED light show. The north-west Burnie City Council, in partnership with local radio station Sea FM, will be launching an “environmentally conscious” drone show on New Years Eve, which they’ve coined as […]
Wed Dec 20, 2023 - 12:12pmA handful of households in East Devonport have spent the night without electricity after a car slammed into a power pole late yesterday afternoon. The ute collided with the large pole on Tarleton Street shortly after 5:30pm on Monday and initially knocked out power to around 1,400 homes. TasNetworks soon after downgraded the number of affected […]
Tue Dec 19, 2023 - 8:46amResidents near the small Tasmanian town of Penguin were woken by the sound of what locals say was a blaring train horn that went on for more than four minutes late last night. Locals reported the ‘continuously sounding’ train horn coming from a TasRail locomotive on the Western Line near Sulfur Creek around 10pm on […]
Tue Dec 19, 2023 - 8:15amUpdated 3:10pm, Friday December 15: An elderly motorcyclist has died following a serious crash on a rural section of a Tasmanian highway this afternoon. The 77-year-old man from Elliot, around 20 minutes south-west of Burnie, was riding on the Bass Highway at Brittons Swamp when he left the road. Police say the man was treated by paramedics but […]
Fri Dec 15, 2023 - 12:30pmMost of Burnie’s CBD and some parts of South Burnie are currently in a blackout after being hit by a widespread power outage. TasNetworks say crews are currently investigating the cause of the outage, which began around 10:30am on Friday and has left more than 700 CBD customers without electricity. This power disruption comes as […]
Fri Dec 15, 2023 - 11:15amUpdate – A person has sadly passed away following a 3-vehicle crash on the Murchison Highway at Yolla today. SEE THE LATEST. EARLIER – 10:45am, Friday December 15: A driver has run off from the scene of a serious crash involving two cars and a motorbike in north-west Tasmania this morning. Police say officers are […]
Fri Dec 15, 2023 - 9:34amA lightning strike has destroyed a vacant house near Sheffield overnight after a severe storm tore across Tasmania. The Tasmania Fire Service say lightning struck a tree near the house on Claude Road in the early hours of Thursday morning and set the house alight. Lightning strikes are also believed to have caused a bushfire in […]
Thu Dec 14, 2023 - 1:45pmTwo Tasmanian men accused of attempting to smuggle 4kg of cocaine and 3kg of meth into the state, in what the police are calling the “largest seizure” of the drugs in history, have appeared in court. Craig Aaron Castle, 34, from Elderslie and Joshua Charles Hay, 40, from Swansea are each facing charges of trafficking […]
Thu Dec 14, 2023 - 5:30amA “torrential downpour” has left a Tasmanian school “under water”, prompting parents to be called in to pick up their children this afternoon. Devonport High School was inundated by water shortly after 1pm on Wednesday as a large storm, complete with heavy rain and lighting, passed over the north-west coast. The nearby Devonport Airport weather […]
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