Two teenage Hobart p-platers have been charged after they were caught hooning around the Cambridge area last night. Police located two seventeen-year-old provisional drivers and their vehicles around 10pm on Friday, and have charged them with hooning offences under the Youth Justice Act. Despite efforts by the police to deter this type of dangerous driving behaviour, […]
Sat Dec 24, 2022 - 7:30amOver a thousand homes across Hobart have lost power tonight, with a lightning storm possibly to blame – according to TasNetworks. 🔌🌩 The outage, which is affecting 1136 households and businesses in Lenah Valley, Moonah, Mount Stuart, New Town and West Moonah, occurred only minutes ago, with TasNetworks assuring people their crews are investigating. ⚡️ […]
Fri Dec 23, 2022 - 7:35pmSix Tassie drivers have been nabbed by Police at random breath tests across the state in the last 24 hours, and police say they are fed up at those putting ‘innocent lives at risk’. A 34-year-old man has had his licence revoked after being caught in Cygnet with a blood alcohol level of 0.266 – […]
Fri Dec 23, 2022 - 1:30pmThis isn’t something you see every day in Hobart City! 😱 Katie O’toole said she was out for a walk on Frederick Street in West Hobart when she spotted this Tasmanian Devil walking along the footpath! She immediately contacted Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, who promptly arrived to capture the devil, bringing it back to the sanctuary […]
Fri Dec 23, 2022 - 11:58amHow cool is this!! 🤩 A pilot in Tasmania has taken to the skies above Devonport this morning to draw a Christmas tree on the flight radar! 🎄 The plane, which departed Smithton Airport before 9 AM, spent around an hour in the air to complete the tree.
Fri Dec 23, 2022 - 10:27amYou might have to search a little harder to catch your favourite fish this summer in Tassie! 😬🎣 Popular recreational fish, the Flathead, has been classified as “depleted” for the first time in Tasmania, according to a new study. Researchers found that the Flathead population in most regions of the state has declined below critical […]
Fri Dec 23, 2022 - 7:00amPolice and Emergency services are currently at the scene of a rolled car on the Channel Highway in Kingston tonight. Witnesses say the incident occurred around 10:30pm and the road is currently closed. The crash comes as Tasmania Police ramp up ‘Operation Safe Arrival’, a campaign aimed at ensuring everyone arrives safely during the holiday […]
Thu Dec 22, 2022 - 11:20pmFeel like you’ve been soaking up a little more daylight than usual today Hobart? ☀️🏆 On the longest day of the year, Hobart has topped all the other capital cities in Australia as the place with the most daylight hours! Hobart recorded an impressive 15 hours and 21 minutes of daylight today, while Darwin at […]
Thu Dec 22, 2022 - 6:44pmFour Tassie drivers have been apprehended for drink driving after a random breath testing operation in Kingston last night. In addition to the operation in Kingston, a traffic operation also took place this morning in Cambridge. Police say the results of both stops are “not good enough”, reminding the community that officers will not tolerate drink […]
Thu Dec 22, 2022 - 3:47pmThe owners of a former campervan hire business at Hobart Airport have had to pay $6,000 in penalties after the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) caught them not paying entitlements to a casual cleaner. McCullagh Enterprises only paid the worker, a Filipino visa holder, the owed $14,060 in entitlements after the FWO started legal proceedings earlier […]
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