10:18 AM AEST | POLICE and fire investigators are looking into the cause of a blaze which burned a Queenstown home to the ground yesterday afternoon.
Firefighters were called to the Beardsley St property at 12.46pm...
10:12 AM AEST | THREE proposed statewide league football clubs, including the Burnie Dockers, have threatened to walk away from the competition unless AFL Tasmania drops its Tasmanian Devils VFL program.
Burnie, wh...
10:12 AM AEST | DEVONPORT motorcycle racer Brad Wootton will be chasing his first podium finish in a national series on his home circuit when he competes in the support program for this weekend's round six of the...
10:11 AM AEST | WHETHER Australians are good at them, or people enjoy watching them, a number of sports receive coverage far beyond the ordinary during the Olympics.
Most Olympic sports can be pursued to some degre...
10:11 AM AEST | BURNIE Football Club president Shane Walker will step down at the end of the year.
However, Walker was quick to point out his decision had nothing to do with the Dockers' historic vote on Tues...
10:05 AM AEST | RUNNERS, joggers, or walkers preparing for the Burnie Ten now have an ideal lead-in event, with the announcement of a new major 2.5km and 5km fun run to be held in Devonport next month.
Couch potato...
10:03 AM AEST | IF YOU ever wanted a healthy way to make the Guinness Book of Records - here it is.
You don't need to do anything weird, or have incredible brain power.
All you need is about 15 minutes to t...
10:00 AM AEST | MANY a man's heart would have broken over Kylie Minogue and Devonport man Shane King is nursing one of them.
"I love everything about her," he told The Advocate.
His story is not one of eyes...
10:00 AM AEST | KENTISH farmer Peter Braid is charged $150 a year for waste management when he gets no wheelie bin service and uses his local tip just two or three times a year.
Like many rural locals in Kentish, h...
28/08/2008 | CAVESIDE may be the last remaining haven for some of the worlds rarest breeds of cow.
Warrick and Betty Holmes are the creators of this paradise - which hosted the birth of their latest Red Poll c...
28/08/2008 | A COMPANY'S hopes of mining iron ore in the wild South-West are set to spark an environmental battle.
The Greens yesterday lashed out over Tasmanian company Macquarie Harbour Mining's hope...
27/08/2008 | A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged over an incident where a baby was allegedly struck on the head by a missile thrown from a high building in Burnie nine days ago.
The baby, four-month-old Elizabeth...
27/08/2008 | COASTAL Olympic cyclist Mark Jamieson has returned home, hungry for more Olympic glory in London in 2012.
Although Jamieson, part of Australia's fourth- placed 4000m teams pursuit, narrowly mi...
27/08/2008 | NEXT year's proposed statewide football league is a step closer after Burnie Football Club members voted last night to join the competition.
Members overwhelmingly voted in favour of a recommend...
27/08/2008 | TASMANIA'S bid for an AFL team of its own is starting to pick up momentum with the announcement of a second major sponsor and the first Tasmanian sponsor.
Tasmanian financial institution MyState...
27/08/2008 | THE Irishtown Football Club is claiming an Australian football record after winning its 37th Circular Head Football Association grand final on Saturday.
The Canaries ran out winners over the Trowutt...
27/08/2008 | LATROBE will be without a key player for the first two weeks of next season due to suspension.
On Monday night at the NTFL Independent Tribunal, Brett McCall was found guilty of misconduct in that...
27/08/2008 | MORE than three-quarters of Tasmania's hard-working SES volunteers are unhappy with the level of funding - which influences recruitment success - provided by government.
The SES Volunteer Survey...
27/08/2008 | THE Country Women's Association has voted to lobby the Federal Government to review the rate paid to single pensioners battling to pay rent and living costs.
The CWA state conference voted in fa...
27/08/2008 | IT HAS been a big year for Devonport singing sensation Daniel Bicanski.
In March he performed the opening act for Jimmy Barnes and Diesel at the Breath of Life Festival in his home town.
At the ...