When Andy Baxter first donned a costume at the Royal Hobart Hospital, little did he expect to kick off a 20-year-long ...

Mercury readers are becoming more concerned about crime and more convinced that the sentences passed on convicted criminals ...

The growth of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival is due to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers – and more are needed to ...

The laws governing the University of Tasmania need reviewing to address a drift away from its core role as an educational ...

The Tasmania Prison Service is refusing improve the substandard, smelly and uncomfortable footwear it issues to prisoners, ...

Summer is all about good-vibes, great company and even better drinks and as we head deeper into the thirstiest part of the ...

Real-time tracking is now available across Hobart’s public transport network, giving people the ability to see how far away ...

Barwon Prison, Langi Kal Kal, Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat and the Melbourne Remand Centre are also among the ...

A 37-year old Burnie man has been charged with trafficking and other drug related offences after $42,000 worth of cash and ...

In news to delight Tasmanian food-lovers, acclaimed chef Luke Burgess will open a permanent shop in the Hobart CBD early next ...

A Supreme Court judge has dismissed an appeal by the owner of Tassie Devil Labradoodles who sought to overturn a tribunal ...

A 35-year-old Tasmanian man who admitted to throwing a freshly-trapped brushtail possum into the jaws of waiting dogs – in an ...