Rachel Edwards

A Hobart fashion performance is shining a light on the four stages of grief that carers and dementia patients experience as memory loss takes hold and our identity unravels.

Patricia Harvey is "in trouble" for nominating retired farmer Norman Spurr for ABC Hobart's inaugural Community Spirit awards.

A Rat of Tobruk's improbable love story and enduring friendships will endure, thanks to his son's hard work.

Transported to Van Diemen's Land for burglary, a twist of fate and impatience with a controlling governor made Andrew Bent an unlikely hero.

The electorate of Franklin in southern Tasmania has a diversity of political posters on display, and neighbours enjoy their political discussions.

A classical piece of music, written a year after the Port Arthur Massacre in honour of those shot in the tragedy, has been discovered posthumously and performed for the first time. 

Tasmania's most visited tourist destination, Salamanca Market, is able to keep operating and COVID compliant thanks to the work of volunteers.

Patricia Giles's watercolour paintings of Tasmania's "untamed" landscapes, and her motifs of currawongs, will endure following her death last week.

It's Persian New Year this weekend and Iranians around the world will be celebrating with food and family. But for Arad Nik, it marks 10 years since he fled his homeland.

Effie Pryer is known for her precise portraits and art restoration and has turned her hand to recreating a convict-built Tasmanian cottage from 1848.

Pigeons were once used as communication between Tasmania's remote island lighthouses and the Tasmanian mainland, but occasionally this communication failed. Sometimes tragically.

A Tasmanian garden wins international funding to create a Noah's Ark of ancient plant species, some of which have existed for 150 million years.

In Tasmania, many people hookah dive for recreational fishing though it's unregulated and often the equipment is dangerous.

Jewish women have used a mikvah or ritual bath for generations, but when COVID meant Tasmania's faithful could not travel interstate for the purifying act —Launceston's Shluchim couple stepped up.

They've spoken about a cable car for Hobart's Mount Wellington for the past 130 years, so it's not surprising that the latest plan for a "machine on wires" has hit another hurdle.

Tasmania, already well behind national and international targets for protecting marine areas, has no plans to lift a moratorium on new reserves, says the State Government.

Fears that teenagers would resist a high-school phone ban prove unfounded as students embrace the initiative and are benefiting from it, both academically and socially.

Watching a family member's cognitive decline is heartbreaking, but it can also be frustrating. Carers who've completed the Understanding Dementia course say they've learned to help reminisce, rather than remind.

Bella Laughton-Clark found the remains of a child after a summer barbecue on the beach. Unearthing their origin involved a trip deep into the past.

A chance find leads a historian to an Irish soldier's important memoir. Now work is underway to reveal more of his "very valuable" and "extremely unusual" accounts.

COVID may have left the bluewater classic high and dry this year but race fans can follow Mistral II's eventful race 73 years ago in cyberspace.

It's a long time since Australians had access to cheap crayfish. So what are some easy ways to prepare these spiky sea creatures?

After a ferry ride and trailer ride, this much-loved VW bug has been rescued from a seaside paddock and is ready for a new owner to restore it to its former glory.

For 30 years Tasmanians have donated gifts for the Giving Tree. This year, COVID-19 put paid to that idea, but ABC Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania held a Giveathon, and Tasmanian listeners donated more than $200,000.

Critchley Parker, a young man besotted with a married Jewish woman who was helping refugees fleeing Europe and the rise of Nazism, set out to find her a homeland but perished alone in the wilderness.