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Jo Pickett's horses have a special job: helping young people with disabilities learn communication and social skills. But due to a wideranging review of safety procedures by Tasmania's education department her small business, and other activity providers, are in limbo due to an indefinite ban.

Just 18 months after swooping into Canberra, a giant magpie is being recognised as one of the nation's top "big things" on new $1 coins from the Royal Australian Mint.  

One of the largest gems in Tasmania's tourism crown, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, has been made more friendly to visitors, with the new Dove Lake viewing shelter officially unveiled.

A huge tree falls and misses crushing a car by "a few seconds", with a man and his mother miraculously escaping injury.

Throughout his teens, Rulla managed life through constant grief and more recently, he's been dealing with a cancer diagnosis. But being back home makes me feel grounded and connected.

Power is being restored to several thousand households and roofs are being repaired as severe winds damage parts of  Tasmania's south-east and central north.

A new litter of Tasmanian devils at an animal sanctuary is changing public perceptions of the species.

When Hannah Tumney's beloved pet cockatoo George went missing from her southern Tasmanian home three years ago, she never lost hope that she would see it again. When she did, there was another surprise in store.

Driving cattle through the central highlands of Tasmania has been undertaken for 130 years, first by the Lee family and now the Kilbys, who say they are actively "keeping the tradition alive".

A group of people with disabilities are putting their shared experiences to work and plan to use film to show the tourism industry how to be more inclusive and accessible to everyone.

Sharmaine Mansfield is using present-day technology to explore the historic hauntings of some of the state's most fascinating sites.

Coronavirus restrictions may have closed the bar at the Mole Creek Hotel for eight weeks, but there was no slowing down the activity in the waterway that flows past the back door.

One of the Mole Creek pub's resident platypuses busily foraging.

A Tasmanian family that made headlines for refusing to pay income tax on the grounds it went "against God's will" says it will close its popular honey farm by the end of the month.

A pioneering Tasmanian beekeeping family turns a hobby into a household name.

When Rod Chandler retired from the coroner's office, he did not waste any time following his passion into a new career.

A program trying to re-establish an eastern quoll population in the wild has found the angrier and more agitated the marsupial, the better its chance of survival.

A genuine albino magpie is making its home at a Tasmanian wildlife sanctuary, and keepers say the bird is an "absolute character" which "prefers to be handfed despite being able to feed himself".

Dry conditions and bushfires are killing off bees, affecting the the state's honey supply and forcing producers to downsize.

A group of students in Tasmania's south awoke to the roof of their house being torn off overnight. More wild weather is expected, with winds of up to 120 kilometres per hour to rattle the state.