Tasmania, Australia News

EUTHANASIA activist Philip Nitschke will hold a "do-it-yourself'' workshop in Launceston to inform the elderly and terminally ill on ways they can choose to die.

Dagmar Limp speaks to her audience at the Good Food Room in Warburton with interviewer and Upper Yarra U3A member Alison O'Brien. THE experience of beginning life in war-torn Berlin has led Warburton resident Dagmar Limp to a life of helping others.

AN excavation is being carried out at the Bicheno tip after Launceston detectives received information that a push bike belonging to missing German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt could be buried there.

Children eagerly awaited the teddy bear drop and hundreds gathered to watch as a helicopter arrived to lift a bag of 300 teddy bears high above Devonport's Meercroft Park.

DEVONPORT City Council spends $40,000 a year to remove graffiti - twice as much as Launceston despite having less than half of the population.

THE most spectacular display of food and wine seen at Festivale was lapped up by more than 10,000 patrons at Launceston's City Park yesterday.

TRAVELLERS reveal the natural, culinary and cultural delights of Tassie in the autumn in this list compiled by Christina Pfeiffer.

At the House of Anvers - a chocolate house in Latrobe, Tasmania - Igor Van Gerwen makes dark chocolates shaped like cut gems.

CHILDCARE centres in Launceston have introduced only minimal increases or no increase in fees since a Productivity Commission report forecast a rise by as much as 15 per cent for a child in long-stay care.

DEVONPORT woman Jacqui Lambie has confirmed she intends to nominate as the third known candidate seeking federal Liberal preselection in Braddon.

The Minister for Human Services, Cassy O'Connor, today congratulated the West Tamar Council for its vision and leadership in developing a comprehensive Positive Ageing Strategy.

Gosh, they've been flat out over at the Climate Commission.A The last event was 9 November last year - in Alice Springs.A We really are getting value for money from all those Climate Commissioners.A Really educating the public on the intracies of climate change and computer modelling.

Scenes shot in the resort perfectly capture the cosmopolitan buzz of Queenstown, its stunning lake and alpine scenery and world-renowned experiences such as skiing and bungy jumping.

A MAN whose eight-week-old baby suffered a broken arm days before he called an ambulance yesterday walked free from the Supreme Court in Launceston.

AMERICAN rock superstar Lenny Kravitz will perform his first Tasmanian gig in Hobart next month, as part of his first Australian tour in 18 years.

THE system of loading trucks at Tasmania's busiest container port was haphazard in 2010 when a Toll Transport driver was crushed under another vehicle, the Burnie Magistrates Court heard today.

Jack Gunston plays netball with members of the Cripps Waratah netball club during the "Walk with a Hawk" event during the Hawthorn community camp in Hobart.

ELEANOR HALL: The head of the Gunns timber company is expressing confidence today that his company will finally get the finance it needs to build Australia's biggest pulp mill in northern Tasmania.

A LIBERAL government would play to the state's strengths to build a more resilient economy, Liberal leader Will Hodgman says.

LAUNCESTON police have caught a man who fled after the car he was driving crashed, killing one passenger and seriously injuring another.