Tasmania has been treated to both ends of the spectrum, with a bushfire burning near a west coast town at the same time as a ...

When fire maps showed a bushfire in Tasmania's west burning within metres of a high-conservation-value stand of ancient trees, there were fears for the worst.

Some of our interstate support crews are returning home today, as the Tullah base camp is packed down.Minister for Parks, Nick Duigan, said the ...

Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) have also confirmed that around a kilometre of boardwalk along the Overland Track has been burnt as well as the Pine Forest Moor hut, privately operated by ...

Tasmania's oldest-known Huon pine tree has come under threat by an ongoing bushfire. The fire has moved down the west coast, along Mount Donaldson and has crossed the Pieman River at its southern end.

Queenstown residents are waking up to an uncontrolled vegetation fire burning to the south of the small West Coast town this morning. The blaze on Peters Street began shortly after 1am on Wednesday ...

Hail ‘the size of golf balls’ has lashed parts of Tasmania as lightning strikes have sparked a number of fires in the northwest.

“Over 60 vegetation fires were reported, predominantly in the Midlands and South West districts,” he said. Aircraft are currently conducting reconnaissance flights over remote areas to detect smoke ...

Tasmania Police are following a 'specific line of inquiry' in their investigation of a suspicious house fire early on Friday, ...

China begins live fire exercises in the strait of Taiwan, days after Australia was taken by surprise by similar exercises in the Tasmanian Sea. What is China up to, and what has the fallout of ...