3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (201+ words) Police caught 114 drivers making a banned left turn in the Hobart CBD in just two hours on Thursday morning, nine days after the restriction came into effect. The operation was run at the corner of Argyle and Liverpool streets, where…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (579+ words) An MLC and mayoral candidate have called on the Tasmanian government to fast-track worker safety laws after a retail worker was allegedly stabbed at Spotlight in Glenorchy on Sunday. The worker was taken to hospital with a small knife wound,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (375+ words) A young woman’s “unsophisticated” attempt to give an armed robber a fake alibi unravelled when the Uber records she handed police were linked not to her, but to the accused’s accomplice, a court has heard. Aimee Neita Williams, 22, was last…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (185+ words) Four vehicles have been taken off the road after a string of alleged hooning incidents in North Hobart on Friday afternoon. Two vehicles were seized and two were clamped for 28 days as police cracked down on the dangerous driving over…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (191+ words) A Huonville man has appeared in court accused of murdering his 85-year-old mother, who he had cared for for several years. Jason Victor Oates, 55, was charged with murder on Sunday after a Triple Zero (000) call brought police and Ambulance Tasmania…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (103+ words) Tasmania Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman found inside a home in the state’s south. Officers were called to a house on Stride Street at Huonville, in the Huon Valley, around 4:30am on Sunday. Police say the woman…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (371+ words) A young Tasmanian man has been jailed for breaking another man’s jaw just two days after being handed a community order for a separate assault. Kynan James Lowrey-Sherriff, 24, was last month sentenced to nine months’ jail in the Supreme Court…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (403+ words) A man who drove more than 15 kilometres through Hobart’s southern suburbs while fleeing police before being found hiding in a chicken coop has avoided jail. Adam Dwayne Schultz, 41, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, evading police, three breaches of bail and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (319+ words) A Strahan man has been jailed after tying up a 17-year-old boy in a shipping container and pressing a running chainsaw against his neck during a dispute over stolen tools. Wayne Michael Ludbey, 32, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (140+ words) A 16-year-old has been charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to his own bedroom at a home in East Devonport on Saturday evening. Police say the teenager deliberately lit a fire inside his bedroom at a property on Canning…...