Stephanie Trethewey, a dedicated advocate for rural women and the founder of Motherland, has been awarded the title of 2024 Tasmanian Australian of the Year. Trethewey won the award for creating a solution to help rural regional mothers, having herself faced the profound challenges of raising children without support when she and her husband relocated […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 8:45pmThe mouth-watering lineup for this year’s Taste of Summer has been officially revealed today, with favourites from all over Tasmania set to converge at Hobart’s PW1 from December 27. Festival Curator Jo Cook says this year’s Taste is all about bringing friends and family together to celebrate Tasmanian produce. “It will be the biggest and […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 5:00pmWarm weather across Tasmania has sent snakes out in force today, with local catchers responding to a number of calls around the state. North Taz Reptile Relocation say they pulled a tiger snake from a dog pen in Beauty Point on Friday (as shown in the left image). Following the snake intrusion, two dogs were […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 4:55pmA bushfire in Tasmania’s Highlands has sparked an advice warning this afternoon, urging people to ‘monitor conditions’, as temperatures in the area near 30 degrees. The Tasmania Fire Service say the blaze is currently burning around the Little Blue Hill area, north-west of Bothwell and while there is “no immediate threat”, those in the area north […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 3:15pmTasmania is set to sizzle today thanks to a warm and humid northerly airstream that has established itself over the state. Temperatures are forecast to reach close to 30°C in some parts of the state today, including 27°C in Launceston, 26°C for much of the Midlands and 29°C in New Norfolk, Glenorchy and Richmond. According […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 10:45amHobart’s Lord Mayor is making “one last plea” to both the federal and state governments, hoping they will step in to fill a $7 million funding hole required for the construction of a new pool. The ‘much-needed’ warm-water hydrotherapy pool project at the Doone Kennedy Aquatic Centre has been uncertain for months after the only […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 10:00amSocial media has been flooded with photos of a ‘UFO-looking’ cloud that appeared over Hobart on Wednesday. The cloud appeared as a storm front moved across greater Hobart, accompanied by approximately 10,000 lightning strikes and a torrential downpour of 40mm of rain in one east coast in just one hour. A spokesperson from the Bureau […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 7:00amCommercial space at a brand new shopping centre in Hobart’s northern suburbs has just been put up for lease. The newly built Brighton Shopping Complex, anchored by a new IGA Supermarket, is expected to be completed in the coming months. According to Knight Frank, the 162 Brighton Road project will be “transformative for the local […]
Fri Nov 10, 2023 - 5:00amAnother sinkhole has opened up on a busy Hobart Street, just weeks after a previous sinkhole was discovered. The City of Hobart located the latest hole on Molle Street, close to where the last sinkhole was found late last month. However, the council has said that this one “will not result in any lane closures”. […]
Thu Nov 9, 2023 - 10:00pmAfter months of dedicated rallying and campaigning by the local community, a medical centre in Hobart’s northern suburbs has been saved from closure. Your Hobart Doctor plans to step in and take over Bridgewater’s Greenpoint Medical Centre from IPN ‘sometime next month’, offering a lifeline to the local community, which had feared being left without […]
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