Bec Pridham

A Tasmanian state election could be called imminently as an independent MP whose vote props up the minority Liberal government announces he cannot work under "extreme" terms forced upon him by the premier.

A young Tasmanian man who accused his then-girlfriend of cheating on him, then subjected her to 48 hours of horrific abuse, is sentenced to a decade in prison.

The operator of a jumping castle that killed six children after being lifted into the air pleads not guilty to a related safety charge in a northern Tasmanian court.

A wildlife carer has counted more Tasmanian devil deaths on a notorious stretch of road in the six months since the speed limit was reduced, than over the same period in previous years.

A woman who lost her position on her local council due to three missed meetings while caring for her dying husband wants law reform to spare others the same "devastating" fate.

A car has struck two pedestrians and crashed into a building in Devonport, northern Tasmania, with police warning of a gas leak in the area. 

Environmental activists and community members fighting a wind farm planned for Robbins Island, off Tasmania's north-west, say their upcoming court appeal is likely to be the end of the road for them, with money — and hope — running dry.

Eric Abetz, the veteran conservative Liberal senator, has launched a bid to return to politics at the state level, saying he wants to "make a positive difference for the people of Tasmania".

An inflatable jumping castle that claimed the lives of six Tasmanian primary school children after becoming airborne in 2021 was only secured at half its anchor points, a court document alleges.

Daycare centres are backbones of regional communities, as they allow workers to stay in the area and parents to re-enter the workforce. Sometimes they close because they cannot get staff — but that is not the issue here.

A man who fatally stabbed a young woman in an act of "random violence committed against a stranger" is sentenced to life in prison by a Tasmanian court.

A small community in north-west Tasmania hopes it can replicate a successful grassroots campaign in the state's south and keep its local GP clinic from closing its doors after 45 years of service. 

The plight of the endangered Maugean skate could see a pause to salmon farming in Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour. But locals warn the flow-on effects to their small community could be disastrous.

While oil and gas companies argue no lasting harm is done by undersea blasting, Tasmanian fisherman Danny Fox isn't so sure — and says if it's so harmless, he'd like to see an "oil executive" in a bath take a large blast of compressed air to "see what he thinks".

A Tasmanian man avoids jail time after pleading guilty to non-fatal strangling and assaulting his former partner, in one of the state's first cases since new laws were brought in.

Chelsea lived in "constant fear" of aggravating her father and says her childhood could have been different had she not been made to live with him. Now, changes in Australian law mean other children will hopefully be spared from the ordeal she endured.

A new pay deal for Tasmania's health workers is struck — but while welcomed by unions, is cautioned as not being "a silver bullet" to the sector's problems.

It's barely detectable to the human eye, but a microscopic parasite has decimated wombat populations across south-east Australia. Now, researchers have a better idea of how outbreaks occur, as they continue working to find ways to rescue the iconic marsupial from a "horrible, slow death".

A Tasmanian man who tried to kill his wife and two young children, then attacked his father-in-law when he tried to save them, is sentenced to at least 11 years in prison.

After having his unpaid parking tickets dismissed in court, Alan Charlton is calling for the City of Launceston to turn off its parking meters. Now he is eyeing off a class action, with the Tasmanian government in his sights.

In Tasmania's far north-west, 17 per cent of the population identifies as Aboriginal and some fear their voices will not be heard if the Voice to Parliament referendum passes. 

Dan Bell will never forget the day he had to help save the life of a colleague who'd been stabbed by a patient at Tasmania's North West Regional Hospital. It made him question his future as an emergency department nurse.  

Weeks after seeing her GP about post-menopausal bleeding, Vicki Purnell was under the knife having several organs removed. She's calling for more attention on gynaecological cancers.

Tasmania is a beacon for those wanting to immerse themselves in wild and woolly places. But multiple rescues in recent months have been a sobering reminder that it's not always a walk in the park.

Search crews secured to ropes wade through fast-moving water at a Tasmanian waterfall near where Belgian tourist Celine Cremer is believed missing, but fail to find any sign of her.