Devonport, Australia News

The 23-year-old was born with spina bifida, a condition which relates to damage to the spine and spinal cord.

A COMMUNITY bank at Port Sorell is one step closer after the project received $800,000 in pledges of support.

Two North-West Coast men have been charged in relation to an alleged burglary at the Axemen's Hall of Fame at Latrobe earlier this week.

It explores and develops natural resources, with a principal focus on gold. The company's major projects include Ernest Giles Gold Project, Lackman Rock Gold Project, Firetower Gold Project, Warrentinna Gold Project and Lisle Gold Project.

BASS Strait shipping company Searoad Holdings is aiming to introduce two new ships, powered by natural gas, to service Tasmania in about two years.

The spending is compulsory, thanks to an art in public buildings scheme that has been operating under Labor and Liberal governments for more than 30 years.

The Sovereign Military Order of Knights Templar Tasmania Inc has opened a new chapter of the Western Martial Arts Swordsmanship School in Devonport.

CASH would be used to entice Toll Group back to Bell Bay port under a plan from the federal MP for Bass.

WEST Coast Mayor Darryl Gerrity termed it as "a last shot" meeting with Premier Lara Giddings in Devonport yesterday, to talk about the options for running water and sewerage corporations in Tasmania, including the push to merge to a single authority.

TASMANIA'S chief health bureaucrat has heard some "frank" feedback from local clinicians on the impact of health budget cuts on North-West patients, ahead of the state budget to be handed down this month.

MEDIAN house prices across Tasmania fell 1.6 per cent to $300,000 for the March quarter, according to the Real Estate Institute of Tasmania.

Peter William Leary has appeared in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in Burnie and changed the not guilty plea he entered in February.

Burnie has won the 2012 Where is the heart of Tasmania? blood challenge run by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service with 1.87% of residents donating - the highest of all Tasmania's towns.

BURNIE and Devonport residents will enter a new era of mobile telecommunications today with Telstra's new superfast 4G LTE mobile network going live.

NATHAN Hudson, the front man of well-known Australian band Faker, took time out from his busy schedule to help out Coastal three-year-old Charlotte Rataj.

EVERY dog has its day but today is the day man's best friend will be celebrated worldwide for the 17th annual International Day of the Dog.

IT IS a place of natural beauty and of elation wrenched from the tiring climb that leads to one of the best lookouts anywhere in the world.