A man has been left with “serious internal injuries” and another has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after an assault in Launceston’s northern suburbs overnight. Police say officers were called to reports of a disturbance at an address on Hargrave Crescent in Mayfield shortly after 8pm on Tuesday, where they found the seriously […]
Wed Nov 22, 2023 - 7:30amThe husband-and-wife duo behind a Sandy Bay Vietnamese restaurant have been fined almost $70,000 for underpaying two of their family member employees who they had helped relocate to Australia from Vietnam. Xuan A Tran and her husband Quang Manh Dong, the owners of ‘Vina Yummy Kitchen’, have admitted to underpaying Tran’s sister by $18,683.69 and […]
Wed Nov 22, 2023 - 5:00amA Hobart driver has been fined for ‘recklessly’ blasting through a red light and causing an ‘avoidable’ crash. The crash, which occurred around 10pm on Friday night, saw the driver run a red light at the Molle Street and Davey Street intersection. The driver then collided with another vehicle and crashed through a fence on Davey […]
Wed Nov 22, 2023 - 3:00amTasmania Police’s Professional Standards team will “review the use of force” used during the arrest of a man who had allegedly stolen a boat on Launceston’s Tamar River yesterday. The man was arrested on Monday afternoon following the “protracted incident”, which involved specialist resources and negotiators “due to concerns about the man’s own welfare and […]
Tue Nov 21, 2023 - 11:20amA man is evading the police in what is believed to be a stolen boat on Launceston’s Tamar River this afternoon. Police say officers are currently responding to the “isolated incident” on the river, which involves a man and a “stolen vessel”. “Police are working to safely take the man into custody,” a spokesperson said. […]
Mon Nov 20, 2023 - 2:15pmPolice are searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a teenager on the Hobart waterfront in the early hours of Sunday morning. Footage of the attack, obtained by Pulse, shows the apparent assault on an 18-year-old on the footpath of Hobart’s Morrison Street by an unidentified offender. In a statement to Pulse, Police have confirmed […]
Mon Nov 20, 2023 - 12:20pmTwo teenagers who robbed a Sandy Bay shop while armed with a Stanley knife and a hammer have both “been in trouble for stealing many times” but now “need to try to stay out of trouble” or risk prison, a Supreme Court Judge has warned. The teenage girls, aged 15 and 17 at the time, carried […]
Mon Nov 20, 2023 - 11:00amWorkplace safety charges have been laid over a jumping castle tragedy at a Tasmanian primary school that resulted in the loss of six young students’ lives. The December 2021 incident claimed the lives of young Hillcrest Primary School students Chace Harrison, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Zane Mellor, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt. The tragedy occurred when a […]
Fri Nov 17, 2023 - 3:20pmAn 18-year-old Cressy teenager has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after allegedly running down a man with her car in the rural Tasmanian town overnight. Police say emergency services were called to reports of a two-car crash on residential Charles Street around 5:30pm on Thursday. The man, a 23-year-old from the Northern Midlands, was taken […]
Fri Nov 17, 2023 - 9:50amA Tasmanian disability support pensioner who was found with a ‘large amount’ of cannabis and more than two dozen plants had a chronic health condition that ‘left him with no other choice’ but to grow and consume the drug, a court has heard. 52-year-old Robert Wilson was found not guilty of drug trafficking and cultivating controlled […]
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