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Bag at Hobart GP clinic which triggered bomb squad ‘just headphones and leads’

A ‘suspicious bag’ left inside a Hobart GP clinic, triggering a bomb squad response this afternoon, only contained headphones and leads – Police say. An exclusion zone was setup around the Your Hobart Health clinic and chemist at 71 Bathurst Street around 2:20 PM today when concerns were raised over the unattended bag. The business […]

Sun Nov 12, 2023 - 4:41pm
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Bomb squad called in as suspicious package found in Hobart doctors clinic

UPDATE – 4:30PM: Police have confirmed the ‘suspicious bag’ in a Hobart GP clinic which triggered a bomb squad response this afternoon ‘just contained headphones and leads’. Police say the bag will be returned to its owner thanks to identifying material found inside. UPDATE – 4PM: Police advise that Bathurst Street is now open and […]

Sun Nov 12, 2023 - 2:39pm
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Illegal sand flathead fishers will face seizures and heavy fines, Police warn

Tasmania Police are cracking down on anglers who are catching sand flathead that are either undersized, oversized or in violation of new bag limits. The significant changes to limits on recreational sand flathead fishing and a total ban on commercial fishing came into effect on November 1 and were implemented in response to the declining numbers […]

Sun Nov 12, 2023 - 5:00am
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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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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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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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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
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Man alleged to have rammed mobile speed cameras, police station with car

A man who allegedly rammed a Tasmania Police station in April and later used a vehicle to damage multiple speed cameras is set to appear in court. The 26-year-old from Clarendon Vale has been charged with destroying property after allegedly reversing into the front doors of the Clarence Plains Police Station in April, resulting in […]

Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 11:35am
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Bruce Fairfax: New criminal search underway at Duckhole Lake to find missing bushwalker

Police will return to the Duckhole Lake area in Tasmania’s south this week as the search for a missing Launceston man continues six years after he was last seen. Bruce Fairfax, who had Parkinson’s disease, went missing while out bushwalking in the Strathblane area with his wife on Saturday, October 14, 2017. The couple separated, with […]

Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 10:00am
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Hobart crowned Australia’s MDMA & cannabis consumption capital

Hobart has once again been identified as the national hotspot for the use of multiple drugs, according to waste water analysis. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s latest analysis of wastewater, based on samples taken at 55 sites across the country, captured 14.1 million Australians, or 55% of the population. It found that Tasmania had the […]

Wed Nov 8, 2023 - 10:50am