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...
10:03 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 | 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 | 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 | THEY say good things come in threes.
Last night John Earl, Elders Burnie sales consultant, was announced the winner of The Advocate's New Zealand His and Her Experience Getaway, and he is hopi...
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 ...
26/08/2008 | THE State Government has written to the Devonport City Council, happy to consider alternatives to the controversial Spirit of The Sea receiving $180,000 in tourism funding.
But new options would nee...
26/08/2008 | YOUNG metal musos Kyle Crawford and Jeremy Stingle are about to tear up the studio.
The Year 10 Parklands High School students have been given the chance to record a track for BIGhART's latest...
26/08/2008 | SOME Tasmanian public schools are failing to tell parents for up to three months their children, some secretly skipping school, were absent from class, according to the State School Parents and Friend...
26/08/2008 | FRANTIC neighbours and a quick fire brigade could not save a frail, elderly woman from a cruel death in her Wynyard flat yesterday morning.
It took the Wynyard Fire Brigade just five minutes to arri...
26/08/2008 | YOU can almost read "wanted: dead or alive" between the lines of this reward poster.
The South Burnie Football Club has struck back against vandals and offered $1000 for information on several rec...
25/08/2008 | NEXT Monday cannot come soon enough for chronic pain sufferer Rita Edwards.
Mrs Edwards' health is in dire straits, but an appointment, obtained after great difficulty, next Monday has gi...
25/08/2008 | THE State Government's first phase of young driver reforms takes effect today.
Infrastructure Minister Graeme Sturges believed the reforms would reduce injuries and fatalities, while Oppositio...
25/08/2008 | ULVERSTONE folk are even angrier about age pension rates than Burnie people, according to a man who collected 2670 signatures to take the pension fight to Canberra.
"(The mood at) Ulverstone was ter...
25/08/2008 | THIRTY-FOUR years is a long time to spend in one job - unless you absolutely love it.
Ridgley Primary School's outgoing school executive officer, Laraine Spurr, considers herself lucky.
She s...
25/08/2008 | BRADDON MHR Sid Sidebottom will strengthen his hold on the marginal seat if the proposed Australian Electoral Commission division re- distribution goes ahead.
With the inclusion of the West Coast an...