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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Disability aid push

WITH just six months until the launch of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Tasmania, pressure is mounting on the State Government to sign a deal for a fully implemented scheme. In Tasmania the NDIS will provide funding to 15 to 24-year-olds...

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Man, woman feared murdered

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl called police after the apparent shooting murders of her mother and her mother's partner northwest of Hobart this morning. Police said the bodies of  the woman, 31, and the man, 34, were found at a property on Hamilton...

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