01 Oct 08 | ROOTS music has been added to the line-up for the Launceston Blues Club annual festival.
Called the Launceston Blues and Roots Festival, the event will be held on October 24-26 at the Batman Fawkn...
01 Oct 08 | GEORGE W. Bush will be treated kindly by history, tips a friend who has known the outgoing US President since their college years.
US Ambassador Robert McCallum visited Scotch Oakburn College last w...
01 Oct 08 | A LAUNCESTON doctor is claiming amazing advances in treating pain and mental conditions without using drugs.
Dr Julian Henley from the Brisbane St Medical Centre says a handheld device called an A...
01 Oct 08 | MICHAEL LOWE gets to the heart of what could help you live a longer, more fulfilling and healthier life.
Happiness is the magical ingredient at the Fountain of Youth.
At least that is what res...
01 Oct 08 | I am able to I should be working for the community. We can all sit home and say we are too busy, but that does not get the work done.'
LIKE many other 74-year-olds, Margaret Moore visits the ho...
24 Sep 08 | A bunfight is developing between Launceston aldermen on food service. Alderman Frank Nott has written to Launceston City Council general manager Frank Dixon about the issue...
24 Sep 08 | Jim Carroll has returned home after running away to the circus almost 20 years ago but not before fighting off lions.
Apart from almost shoving a chair down a lion's throat during his circus lif...
24 Sep 08 | Lockable bicycle cages are on the way and improved cycle and pedestrian access is expected from a plan developed for the city.
Last week, about 55 people attended a Launceston City Council workshop ...
24 Sep 08 | Derby's Tin Centre opened in May as the centrepiece of a tourist attraction for the North-East. But the Trail of the Tin Dragon may remain unfinished due to a funding shortfall from the Launces...
24 Sep 08 | A SEAFOOD survey is offering the chance to boost the aquaculture industry by millions of dollars though changing buyer demand.
Australian Maritime College PhD student and former fish farmer John Ram...
24 Sep 08 | GOLDEN oldies in Launceston can get fit and have fun when GOLD 2008 is offered again in the upcoming Seniors Week.
Seniors Week is being held on October 1-8 and GOLD - Growing Old and Living Dangero...
17 Sep 08 | CHEAP entertainment with lots of action is the promise from organisers of the upcoming international sheepdog trials at Aurora Stadium. About 1000 sheep will be herded around the Laun...
17 Sep 08 | NEWNHAM'S university campus is dead and needs life support, says the State's top student unionist.
Tasmania University Union president Rob Meredith says the North needs a boost and he want...
17 Sep 08 | HELPING people with a disability play sport means more than boosting fitness, it gives hope.
That is the driving force for Summerhill's Robyn Hanson setting up New Horizons Club in 1986, and s...
17 Sep 08 | The challenge for this area on the fringe of Launceston is to develop a strategy that balances the use of the reserves with significant natural and cultural values, including 28 threatened plant sp...
17 Sep 08 | THREE long-time volunteers have been honoured for decades of helping at the Launceston General Hospital.
Formed in 1979, the Holman Clinic and Cancer Ward Auxiliary makes the life of cancer suffer...
17 Sep 08 | MOVES towards a woodheater ban in new homes has been welcomed by a lung health expert.
Australian Lung Foundation State chairman and Launceston doctor James Markos said he congratulated Launceston...
10 Sep 08 | ARTS is good for the mind and theatre leader Robin Lohrey will be telling her top-level education board just that.
The Theatre North general manager is among several Northern-based identities chosen...
10 Sep 08 | TASMANIA'S former Pulp Mill Bus is getting a makeover into a travelling arts extravaganza, thanks to Kim Schneiders.
Based at The Studio, Inveresk, she formed Interweave Arts a decade ago to p...
10 Sep 08 | BUSKER Andrew Leader is happy playing in the Brisbane St Mall but says the licence system strikes a sour note.
He is often seen in the Brisbane Street Mall but last week was ordered to temporarily s...
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