Ambos issue timely advice

No one wants to spend the new year in the back of an ambulance. THINK before you drink is the resounding message from Ambulance Tasmania chief Dominic Morgan as the state prepares to ring in 2013. Mr Morgan said ending up in the back of an ambulance...

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Our own instant millionaire

A DEVONPORT man will enter 2013 as a millionaire after winning $1.4 million in TattsLotto's $30 million Megadraw at the weekend. The man was one of two Tasmanians to collect winnings in the Megadraw. The other lucky man was from the Launceston suburb...

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One dead in Bay of Fires crash

ONE person is dead and two are trapped after a head-on collision at a popular holiday spot in Tasmania's north-east. Police said the crash happened this afternoon on Gardens Rd, The Gardens, near Swimcart Beach. The area, near St Helens, is a popular...

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Anti-Rebels push anger

A CRIMINAL barrister says the Tasmania Police decision to air concerns over the purchase of local real estate by the Sydney-based national boss of the Rebels bikie gang is part of a push to get the State Government to introduce anti-association legislation....

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Burma crash duo vow to return

THEY escaped the burning wreckage of a plane crash in Burma, but Tasmanian Stuart Benson and South Australian girlfriend Anna Bartsch plan to return to the country to complete their unfinished holiday. The couple arrived in Australia yesterday morning,...

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City gets Taste of traffic jam

TOP TASTES: Joe Bennett of Get Shucked Oyster Farm and Will Bignell of Tasmanian Highland Cheeses enjoy their fare. Their combined stall, which also included Craigow Wines/Tap Barley Beer/Belgrove Estate Highland Whisky was named best stall for 2012....

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Rink gets its skates on

From left, Charlie Connor, Lily Chadwick, Elsie Anderson and Thomas Cooper, all 15 of Hobart, enjoy the re-opened Mawson's Skate. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES PUT your skates on, Hobart, the rink is back in action. Hobart's newest tourist attraction,...

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Energy honeymoon over

THE honeymoon period for Aurora customers is to come to an end, with electricity disconnections set to more than double in Tasmania in the next 12 months. Aurora had given Tasmanian customers a four-month amnesty on disconnections as they rolled out...

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Bikie boss in Tassie buy up

THE boss of one of Australia's most notorious bikie gangs has been buying up property across Tasmania. The Mercury can reveal Sydney-based Rebels Motorcycle Club national president Alessio Emmanuel "Alex" Vella has bought several properties in the state...

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Gusto takes the treble

VICTORIAN yacht Gusto has claimed a historic treble by taking line honours in the Melbourne to Launceston event -- smashing the race record in the process. The Brian Pattinson-skippered Open 66 took just 18 hours 44 minutes and five seconds to win the...

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Arrest over road rage attack

A 63-YEAR-OLD man is in police custody and a 37-year-old man is in hospital with stab wounds after a road rage incident at Glenorchy this morning. Police say an altercation between the two men unfolded after both drivers pulled up side by side at the...

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Hungry hordes storm Hobart

The crowd at day one of this year's Taste, which will be open until 11 tonight. Pictures: SAM ROSEWARNE THOUSANDS of Tasmanians, tourists and wave-weary yachties have surged into the Taste Festival, which opened at 11am today on Hobart's waterfront....

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Firies pedal for cancer cure

Charity ride organisers Tim McKay and Emma Weitnauer at Hobart Fire Station today. Picture: RICHARD JUPE TEN Tasmanian firefighters are preparing to cycle from Brisbane to Hobart to raise money for cancer research. The Headin' South for a Cure...

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Oats could smash race record

Wild Oats is potentially still on target for a new Sydney to Hobart race record as she enters Bass Strait this morning. Picture: BRETT COSTELLO WILD Oats XI is steaming towards Hobart ahead of record pace in the 68th Rolex Sydney-Hobart. The Sydney...

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Woman, 70, missing again

DELORAINE police are searching for a 70-year-old Westbury woman who has been missing since Christmas Eve. Police said Patricia Marion Manners was last seen at Dunorlan, a tiny township near Deloraine. She is described as about 158cm tall, with grey...

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Survivor tells of fiery crash

A security guard walks past the remains of an Air Bagan jet that crashed Burma yesterday. Picture: AFP A TASMANIAN man who survived a fiery Christmas Day plane crash in Burma which claimed three lives says he was surprised to walk away alive. Long-time...

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Bird strikes early on debut

JACKSON Bird has made an instant impression in his Australia Test debut at the MCG, grabbing two impressive top-order scalps against Sri Lanka. The 26-year-old struck in the fourth over of the Boxing Day Test when Dimuth Karunaratne lunged forward and...

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Blaze threatens Dolphin Sands

A SCRUB is burning out of control at Dolphin Sands, north of Swansea, on Tasmania's East Coast. Residents of Dolphin Sands Rd have been urged to activate their bushfire plans, with the Tasmania Fire Service sending 10 units to tackle the blaze. The...

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Ho-ho Hobart turns on a feast

ALMOST two tonnes of Tasmanian goodwill has been delivered to North Hobart's Hellenic Hall, just in time for Christmas. SecondBite, which redistributes surplus fresh food to community food programs, was in full flight yesterday, preparing and delivering...

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Bruny delays likely

Long queues for the Bruny Island ferry at Easter. COMMUTERS bound for Bruny Island are advised to expect delays during the busy festive period. Shane Gregory, from the Department of Infrastructure, said motorists traditionally had a longer wait...

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Santa visits tree sitter

Santa helps environmental activist Miranda Gibson celebrate her second Christmas in a tree in southern Tasmania. WHILE most Tasmanians will gather around a Christmas tree today, conservationist Miranda Gibson will still be up one – a 400-year-old...

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Bonus a slap in face for public

SENIOR public servants from the Department of Premier and Cabinet will head into Christmas with bonuses worth a total of more than $170,000. Seventeen directors and managers have received $171,349 in bonuses, equal to 5 to 15 per cent of their annual...

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Tragic start to holiday period

The vehicle at the crash scene in East Bagdad Rd yesterday. Picture: MATT THOMPSON A MAN in his 70s is dead, after his ute hit an embankment and turned onto its side at Bagdad yesterday. The victim, the sole occupant of the grey Ford utility, is...

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Drive to survive this Christmas

Tasmania Police officers have detected 11 drink drivers after conducting almost 2000 random breath tests. MORE than 60 motorists have been caught speeding and 11 have been picked up for drink-driving offences in the Tasmania Police Christmas blitz....

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War against toy guns

A SEMI-AUTOMATIC toy gun rated the most popular toy for boys this Christmas has raised the ire of a global peace movement. The rapid-fire Nerf gun, which makers promise will "deliver a semi-auto barrage of darts as fast as you can pull the trigger",...

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Action plea on light rail

SUPPORTERS of Hobart's proposed light-rail system have renewed calls for action following the release of the business case review yesterday. Aecom's review of ACIL Tasman's 2011 business case found it was an essentially fair and sound appraisal of the...

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Festive real estate boom

WITH fewer open homes and active agents, Christmas and New Year can be a tricky time to buy or sell a home. But with a slight market improvement across the state over the past three months, Real Estate Institute of Tasmania president Adrian Kelly says...

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Meet our white knight

Warwick Rule (centre) and his wife Helen have bought several busted companies in recent years, turning them around and employing locals. A WEALTHY Sydney businessman is breathing new life into struggling Tasmanian businesses in a bid to create much-needed...

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Flowing with festive cheer

Revellers packed Salamanca Place last night. THOUSANDS of Hobart revellers started putting the "merry" into this year's Christmas holiday period last night. There was a bumper and boisterous crowd at Salamanca for the traditional Christmas break-up...

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Snapshot shows healthy state

THE latest snapshot of Tasmania is in, and the news is mostly good. We are richer and smarter than two years ago. We call ourselves optimists, but we can be a little tight with the purse strings. We don't trust governments, but we reckon we lead full...

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Tarkine mine lease approved

ANOTHER mining project earmarked for the Tarkine has moved a step closer to development. The State Government has granted Venture Minerals a mining lease for its Riley Creek iron ore mine, west of Tullah. The Riley Creek proposal is one of three major...

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Abuser's jail term increased

A MAN involved in one of the most horrific cases of sexual abuse to come before the Tasmanian courts has had his sentence increased on appeal. The Court of Appeal today added another three years to his jail term, describing the initial sentence as inadequate....

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Help at hand for injured boys

A BROAD cross-section of the Tasmanian community has banded together to set up a trust to help two little boys who were severely burnt in a car explosion in Burnie earlier this month. Family friends, groups of mothers, service clubs and churches have...

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Movie highs and lows for 2012

The Dark Knight Rises has been rated the best movie of 2012. MOVIE reviewer Leigh Paatsch looks back at the most exciting, shocking, and awe-inspiring cinematic moments of 2012, as well as those that made audiences cringe. Best 10 Films of 2012...

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Man charged over murders

A MAN has appeared in a Hobart court charged with two counts of murder over the deaths of a couple at Mountain River, south of Hobart. Nicolau Francisco Soares, 27, of no fixed address, appeared before Magistrate Michael Daly shortly before 4pm today....

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Two dead on rural property

Dr Del Weston was found dead. Inset: Officers at the scene of the alleged double murder in Bennetts Rd, Mountain River, this morning. THE nation's leading health economist and his academic partner are dead after being murdered at their idyllic Mountain...

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My sister didn't have to die

A COUPLE might still be alive today if police had acted to impose a family violence order against their alleged killer, says Melissa Wilton, right, the sister of the dead woman. The family of the woman slain in a double killing and attempted suicide...

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Accessory's sentence stands

A MAN who helped a killer hide the body of a murder victim has lost an appeal against the severity of his jail term. Sean Timothy Hudson, 37, of Ravenswood, was convicted in May of assault and being an accessory after the fact in the murder of 43-year-old...

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Trial over teen's road death

A NEW Norfolk man will face trial next year over the road death of a schoolgirl in the Derwent Valley last February. Bradley John Chaplin, 27, has pleaded not guilty to negligent driving, driving without due care and attention, speeding, and driving...

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Tarkine iron ore mine approved

FEDERAL Environment Minister Tony Burke has given an Indian mining company the green light to develop an iron ore project on Tasmania's West Coast. The mine, one of a handful of proposals being fiercely opposed by Tarkine conservationists, is expected...

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Students receive finals marks

MORE than 3000 students have achieved their Tasmanian Certificate of Education this year. Among them are about 100 students whose mark of 98.45 or more put them in the top 1.5 per cent of their age group in Australia. They were among 12,605 students...

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Worker hurt in Bicheno blast

A MAN in his 60s has been badly injured in an industrial accident near Bicheno, Tasmania Police say. Officers were sent to the scene on the state's East Coast this afternoon after reports of an explosion. The incident occurred about 2pm in a quarry...

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Stolen money used to gamble

A 25-year-old bank employee's gambling addiction led him to embezzle $27,000 from the accounts of friends and family and from the staff footy tipping competition, a court has heard. Joshua James Bailey pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Hobart to...

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Police suspect parental dispute

Police officers are continuing to search a home at Hamilton after a double murder yesterday. Picture: KIM EISZELE POLICE believe a 59-year-old man suspected of a double murder at Hamilton was motivated by a dispute over his one-year-old child. ...

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Body found in Howrah dunes

SES volunteers comb the Howrah site where the body of a man was found by a member of the public earlier today. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN THE body of a man believed to be in his 60s has been found in sand dunes at Howrah, on Hobart's Eastern Shore. Police...

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Adoption hits low

ADOPTION is fast becoming a thing of the past, with just six Tasmanian families successfully adopting a child in the past year. National adoption rates are at the lowest level in 25 years, with 333 adoptions Australia-wide in 2011-12, the latest figures...

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