25 Nov 08 | FEEDBACK is wanted on the location of a viewing platform on the West Tamar side of the Tamar River, behind the silt ponds.
Launceston City Council alderman Graeme Beams said the council had budgeted...
25 Nov 08 | What will happen to the purging feeling you get when you hoik rubbish on to the pile? How much fun is it to "let go" of your household garbage on to a smelly pile of other people's equally smell...
25 Nov 08 | THE Northern Tasmanian branch of RSPCA is expanding its education efforts to get away from being reactive and be more proactive.
Chief executive for the animal welfare group Greg Tredinnick, who has...
25 Nov 08 | DIGITAL innovations being developed in central Launceston could soon be starring on billboards and elsewhere across the nation.
Telstra Broadband eLab in Cameron St is developing a software applic...
25 Nov 08 | NEWS is expected within weeks that a multi-storey car park has been approved for the Launceston General Hospital.
Parking is a big problem around the South Launceston hospital and has been one of the top complaints in feedback to hospital management.
25 Nov 08 | BUSINESSES want recycling in the city centre to get away from the weekly image of bright plastic garbage bags piled on the footpath.
Launceston City Council is possibly the only council in the State...
25 Nov 08 | RIDDLER Jake is a champion, has a gentle manner and is on death row.
Newnham dog trainer Doug Cassidy said the almost five- year-old greyhound had retired after a successful racing career with 81 ...
11 Nov 08 | A $13 million plan to demolish 68 South Launceston retirement homes and replace them with 120 units and other buildings is being considered by Launceston City Council.
Cosgrove Park aged care centre...
11 Nov 08 | A 170-year-old is in blooming good health and on display at City Park.
It is a wisteria climbing vine but looks like a tree after almost 200 years of growth.
Launceston City Council gardener Les...
11 Nov 08 | CONVENIENCE of central city living and job security is driving Launceston real estate prices higher.
Real Estate of Tasmania figures for the September quarter show a 41 per cent increase in the me...
11 Nov 08 | MAJOR action can be expected on improving Launceston's flood levees early next year but a full solution will take several years.
11 Nov 08 | A MONEY expert will next week explain how to minimise risk during the world financial crisis.
Experienced share investor and Australian Technical Analysts Association member Jack Hummerstone will ...
11 Nov 08 | HERITAGE enthusiasts are calling for a now derelict near-city centre paddock to be restored and sympathetically developed instead of becoming a car parts centre.
Helen Tait and Nancy Serisier say th...
11 Nov 08 | AN extra $9 million a year from 60,000 more tourists is the promise for the Trail Of The Tin Dragon.
Telling the story of Chinese tin miners in the North-East, trail chairman and Dorset Mayor Peter ...
04 Nov 08 | SPORT enthusiasts have welcomed a plan to have a tennis centre in Launceston with 11 floodlit courts, cafe and shop open next year.
The Launceston City Council plans to convert the former ABC Bowls ...
04 Nov 08 | A DETAILED plan to upgrade Aurora Stadium is expected to be revealed before Christmas.
The Launceston City Council last month approved an outline master plan to move the fire-damaged Northern Stan...
04 Nov 08 | ALAN Taylor is a poet, Tourettes sufferer and Greens adviser and now he's a living book.
Living Library is a program from the Launceston Library where people with interesting lives are "loaned...
04 Nov 08 | A NEW fence, which looks like an old one, is about to replace a sagging effort to resolve a long-running heritage issue at a South Launceston hotel.
The Empire Hotel Tasmania, at the corner of Welli...
04 Nov 08 | HOPES are high that the stricken Aquarius Roman Baths will soon be back in full swing after financial difficulties hit the George St wellbeing centre.
HOPES are high that the stricken Aquarius Roman Bat...
04 Nov 08 | RED bicycles and riding paths connecting Newham to Inveresk are being considered as part of a strategy to boost the University of Tasmania's profile in the city.
Called the UTAS City Planning Gu...