Anzac Day 2015: Record crowds attend services around Tasmania and other top stories

Anzac Day 2015: Record crowds attend services around Tasmania

Tens of thousands of people have attended Anzac parades and services around Tasmania this morning. Crowds lined the streets as current and former servicemen and women, along with relatives marched through the Hobart and Launceston CBDs to the ... >> view original

Interstate Ticketing - Launceston

... non-members prices are below. Fans based in Tasmania or members who wish to travel to the game can also purchase via the club or can book a custom travel package including flights, accommodation and tickets with AFL Travel at www.afltravel.com.au ... >> view original

Launceston Airport given all clear after bomb squad investigates abandoned car

Passengers were not allowed to disembark and the airport was cleared while the bomb squad inspected the car. "Look, I apologise for any disruption but certainly with this heightened threat level we currently have in Australia at the minute we had to ... >> view original

Five men plead not guilty to Launceston kidnapping

Five Tasmanian men charged with kidnapping a man in Launceston in February have faced the Supreme Court. Christopher John Humphreys, Malcolm Joshua Mayne, Matthew Luke Williams, Sean Gregory Richardson and Caine Robert Richardson have ... >> view original

Lawyer questions credibility of key witnesses in Launceston double murder trial

The lawyer for a man on trial for a double murder in Launceston three years ago has cast doubt on the credibility of two key witnesses. Marco Daniel Rusterholz, 51, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Angela Hallam, 31, and Joshua Newman, 21, in a ... >> view original

Officeworks launches Mailman parcel delivery service

Parcels can be sent from stores in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Adelaide and Perth, and delivery is available to virtually all of Australia with the exception of "some remote areas" and delivery to postal lockers and PO boxes. >> view original

Tasmanian Government to pay Launceston sawmiller $1m to keep operating

A Launceston sawmiller will receive $1 million to stay in the timber sector rather than leave, in a record agreement struck under the Tasmanian Government's rejigged Regional Sawmiller Structural Adjustment Grants Program. Barbers Sawmill on Dowling ... >> view original

What is believed to be the world's biggest wasp nest has been found in ...

A 12-year-old boy has found what is believed to be the largest European wasp nest in the world, on a property at Karoola, north east of Launceston in Tasmania. Jordan Waddingham set out to discover the nest after his mother Stephanie complained about ... >> view original

Defence lawyer in double murder trial says evidence points to two other men

The lawyer for a man on trial for a double murder in Launceston has told the jury there is evidence at least two other men could be responsible for the killings. Marco Daniel Rusterholz has pleaded not guilty to murdering Angela Hallam and Joshua ... >> view original

TARGA: Sinkers eases in

For motoring.com.au's Mike 'Sinkers' Sinclair and co-driver Julia Barkley, the first day was simply about growing comfortable in the car in live stage conditions. “With today being 'minimum' time we actually drove the stages with a bit in hand,” said ... >> view original