Tasmanian remote area firefighters have deployed to help their Victorian counterparts battle a major bushfire burning in the ...

Troy Grafton has ridden a wave of success and disappointment in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race to get to his 25th ...

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The year 2024 was many things in Tasmania — but it won’t be remembered as dull. It all kicked off with a bang when Princess ...

A new Mayor sworn in, Tones and I announcing her solo return to Townsville and a tragic hit-and-run were the stories that ...

The resignation of a Supreme Court justice who was convicted of criminal offences in November came after a proposal from the ...

Boxing Day is here, with your last chance to score some huge savings before the year is over. If you missed out on the wild ...

A drug dealer’s plea for mercy was shut down by a judge after thousands of dollars of MDMA and fantasy were found during a police raid. Tamara Brooke Gibbett’s plea for mercy was shut down by a judge ...

Former Home and Away star Pia Whitesell has given fans a glimpse at the lavish LA mansion she shares with her Hollywood hotshot husband. Pia Whitesell is definitely not in Summer Bay anymore. The ...

A seeming increase in potholes appearing on highways and roads in the North-West of the state has left motorists fuming.

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 ...