The only manned petrol station in the West Coast town of Strahan is set get back up and running in early 2024. The town has been without a manned petrol station since April when BP shut up shop for redevelopment, leaving just a single pump at the airport as only option for fuel. Lowes Petroleum […]
Fri Dec 8, 2023 - 8:00amA Tasmanian shop owner had recently lost her husband just four weeks before a devastating blaze tore through and destroyed their small-town general store. Kerrie Sinclair had battled through road closures, the challenges of COVID-19 and floods to keep the doors of the Nunamara General Store open for the past 22 years before the business […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 7:50pmHobart’s Goods Shed stands in the way of the proposed Macquarie Point stadium and its fate could be influenced by an application to consider the 1915 railway building for permanent heritage listing. The Tasmanian Heritage Council assessed the century-old structure during a Wednesday night meeting and are believed to have started the process for its […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 6:10pmHobart’s Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds has received a caution for breaching the code of conduct during an interaction with now-Councillor Louise Elliot at a public meeting last year. The meeting was held to discuss the University of Tasmania’s intention to move its campus from Sandy Bay to the CBD, during which Ms Elliot spoke against the […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 3:25pmHobart teenager Isabelle Corbin has set the bar for grand entrances to school events by touching down at her Year 12 St Michael’s Collegiate school formal in a helicopter. The aspiring rescue helicopter pilot and daughter of the late Rotorlift founder Roger Corbin, flew the helicopter to her leavers dinner at Wrest Point with the […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 2:25pmA customer has issued a warning to other shoppers after she went to eat a hot roast chicken purchased from a Tasmanian supermarket that reportedly contained maggots. The chicken was reportedly bought from Woolworths in Wynyard at 4:50pm from a batch prepared at 4:33pm on Wednesday afternoon. The woman was quick to share the find in […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 2:10pmThe Skylands mega-development on Hobart’s eastern shore is back on the table, with an updated masterplan that will be voted on by Clarence councillors more than six months after its initial rejection. This major development, located about 25-minutes from Hobart’s CBD by car (on a good day), would see around 2,500 new homes built across 6 connected […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 12:00pmTasmania’s annual Targa event has been postponed for the second year in a row and won’t return until 2025, organisers have announced. Initially scheduled for April 8th to 13th next year, the 31st Targa Tasmania event has been pushed back to take place from April 28th to May 2nd in 2025. The “bitter blow” comes […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 10:05amResidents of a remote rural aged care facility on Tasmania’s East Coast were surprised with a visit from a Christmas Grinch on Wednesday, bringing cheer to mark the beginning of the festive season. In a video shared on the May Shaw Facebook page, the Grinch could be seen racing around the Swansea facility, greeting and hugging […]
Thu Dec 7, 2023 - 7:00amA Kia Carnival car advertisement, filmed on a winding Tasmanian road near a cliff-face, has come under scrutiny by the advertising regulator. The nation’s Ad Standards Community Panel easier this year received a brief complaint that said the ad undermined road safety by “encouraging fast driving in unsafe conditions … speed kills”. Kia argued that […]
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