Megan Macdonald

In a time when off-street parking is more valuable than ever, one group of residents in Hobart has made an unconventional choice.

While the physical health benefits of parkrun events are obvious, many participants experience more than just the satisfaction of beating their personal best time.

For refugees moving to Australia, arriving in a new country can be difficult, but a company in Hobart is hoping to make the move easier for Tasmania's newest arrivals.

Once celebrated by thousands of Tasmanians when it arrived on our shores in 1985, the time has come for the former Abel Tasman ferry to make its final journey.

It's been nearly 25 years since Tasmania became the last state to decriminalise homosexuality, and the queer community is still fighting for safe spaces after 17-year-old Flamingos fell victim to the pandemic.

When you think of a quoll, them eating human flesh is probably the last thing you'd expect. But research has recently revealed accounts of this happening.

In 2018, Annabel Crabb crossed paths with an artist in Rome. Little did she know she would rediscover him four years later. 

Only a true radio 'nerd' would brave the snow and set-up antennae in the freezing cold just to hear distant transmissions, but that is all part of the fun for Alaska's Paul Walker Jr — and his new favourite is an Australian radio station on the other side of the world.

It is team sport, but not as you know it — rainbow jerseys, a touch of glitter, and drag queens cheering from the sidelines. This is Australia's largest LGBTIQA+ basketball team, where sport is about inclusiveness and "having a bit of a laugh and having fun".

When residents of a Tasmanian beachside suburb lose precious items in the sand, they often turn to metal detector enthusiast Tim Chandler for help.

Scientists have only recently discovered that platypuses and wombats glow under ultraviolet light — but now researchers at a US zoo have become the first in the world to find that the phenomenon also occurs in Tasmanian devils.

This Tasmanian grandmother probably has way more Instagram followers than you. And after some tips from her grandkids, Gangsta Grandma is using the social media platform to stay social while still being mostly housebound.

Global make-up brand Mary Kay announces its withdrawal from Australia and New Zealand, with experts saying the move likely has more to do with a tough retail market than the company's controversial multi-level marketing business model.

A growing number of people are turning to social media to buy or sell pre-cooked meals, but an expert has warned the practice can be risky.

A snake catcher called to a report of a single snake soon discovered the job entailed a female which had eaten a frisky male — with the spurned suitor allowed the chance to fight another day after being regurgitated.

When Rod Chandler retired from the coroner's office, he did not waste any time following his passion into a new career.

A series of UFO-shaped clouds spotted in the skies over Tasmania this week have shutterbugs working their cameras overtime, but there's a scientific explanation for why they're a more common sight in Australia's island state.

New vision emerges of the ship which brought down Hobart's Tasman Bridge more than 40 years ago, showing a wreck teeming with marine life including gill sharks.

Almost half a century on, John is setting out to write a memoir about the incident and the events that followed. The process meant revisiting the event and the questions that have been left unanswered.

Eleanor was always a happy, healthy baby girl, but when just 18 months old she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. After a relapse, her family is pinning their hopes on a trial in the US.

A rainbow-soaked cloud that appeared over Tasmanian skies this week has wowed some social media users and confused others, with many left wondering what it is and whether it is even real.

Hobart's Republic Bar puts up its own notice assuring patrons the business is "pro-choice" and does "not control women's bodies" after a pro-life ad appears on a billboard on its roof.

From crossing the world for love to making your holiday a permanent move, how did you end up in Hobart? Here are your best answers.

Chicken kebabs are off the menu for Boris the dog, after the hungry pooch needed emergency surgery to have a wooden skewer removed from its heart, costing its owners $13,000.

A Tasmanian woman says she was shocked to discover pieces of blue plastic in quoll scats left around her property, weeks after another quoll was found dead on Bruny Island with its head stuck in a plastic bottle.