In the middle of Tasmania sits a 5,000-hectare property once used for sheep grazing. But when the sheep farmers left, an ...

12pm: Tasmania Police confirmed they are responding ... A 19-year-old man allegedly found dumping building rubbish in a forest plantation near Beaumaris received a $1010 fine.

Experts say it is only a matter of time until major Australian cities experience “house-to-house ignition” on a similar scale ...

The Forest Fire ... in parts of Tasmania, and the south-east and south-west coasts of mainland Australia in recent decades. Northern wet season (October–April) rainfall deciles for the past 30 years ...

Rainfall in western Victoria, areas of South Australia and central Tasmania ... dry six-month spell started in August. Forests became tinder-dry, leading to the disastrous Black Friday bushfires of ...

How well do you understand public wildfire prediction maps? And does the average member of the public understand these maps? A research team in Australia is looking at a range of maps available to ...

The former Gunns Wood Chip Mill at Triabunna was an epicentre in the “forest wars” before it was ... Despite opposition from the state government and other logging industry supporters over ...

The Labor state opposition has been calling for Spirit IV to be brought straight to Tasmania, rather than remain overseas. If the ship does come to Australia, it is not yet known where it would ...