ABC Northern Tasmania

03/06/2026

What is your go-to pie flavour? Steak and mushroom? Chicken and leek? Curried Scallop? Or is there a family favourite we’ve overlooked?

Let us know in the comments and tune in to Breakfast with Kim Napier when she'll be joined by a Tasmanian pie maker expanding interstate.

Tune in on 91.7FM or on ABC listen: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp

03/06/2026

The loss of James Boag's brewery and Hawthorn Football Club to northern Tasmania's economy could cost the region a million dollars a week, local leaders say.

03/06/2026

Tasmania police say it has dismantled a significant operation, which was allegedly producing illegal 3D-printed guns.

These types of weapons are banned in all Australian states and territories but are becoming more common.

An operation allegedly producing illegal 3D-printed guns has been uncovered and shut down in southern Tasmania.

03/06/2026

Jon Edmunds from Find Our Lost Loved Ones (FOLLO) says the group of volunteers plan to look for a missing George Town man next after having success twice in the Tasmanian bush already.

Jon Edmunds from Find Our Lost Loved Ones, FOLLO, says the group of volunteers plan to look for a missing George Town man next after having success twice in the Tasmanian bush already.

03/06/2026

A financial review into Tasmania's soon-to-be-axed state housing authority says it relies too heavily on spreadsheets, and noted problems with transparency and effective decision-making.

02/06/2026

The 217-metre-long heavy-lift vessel Black Marlin will deliver a Tasmanian shipbuilder's new electric ferry to South America, after the previous transporter became caught up in the Strait of Hormuz closure.

02/06/2026

James Boag has announced it will stop producing beer in Tasmania at its iconic 145-year-old brewery later this year, affecting 42 local jobs.

The brewer said the decision came amid the "long-term decline in the national beer market" and high costs.

02/06/2026

Australian scientists have started analysing gases from the first ice cores extracted as part of a major climate project in Antarctica.

Researchers say understanding the Earth's past atmosphere will help them to better predict the future impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.

02/06/2026

Jeremy Rockliff won't investigate how an email containing the health-related information of a politician was leaked to the media and suggests she could take up the matter with a complaints body that doesn't exist yet.

02/06/2026

Nurses at one of Tasmania's biggest hospitals have been told they should stop wearing fun scrubs or "free dress" and reminded they need to maintain "some professionalism" regarding their uniform.

Nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital have been told they should stop wearing fun scrubs or "free dress" and reminded they need to maintain "some professionalism" regarding their uniform.