1:00 AM AEDT | RATEPAYERS across Tasmania paid more than $400 million in rates and charges to their councils in 2006-07, the latest Measuring Council Performance report states. The Department of Premier and Cabine...

1:00 AM AEDT | THE Tasmanian Fire Service was called to a fire at a women's boutique in Launceston's Quadrant Mall yesterday afternoon. Two units from the Launceston brigade attended the fire in shop 27,...

1:00 AM AEDT | MORE than 500 pieces of Australia's early settler history will go under the hammer this Sunday at an auction predicted to break State records. Organisers are tipping sales will exceed $2 million...

1/12/2008 | AMC engineering lecturer Alan Belle talks to Julian Burgess about the Greenliner battery-powered boat project during its historic voyage on the Tamar River on Monday. Will Swan took the pictures . . . A full report on the voyage appears in The Examiner on Tuesday.

1:00 AM AEDT | GUN young NSW opener Phillip Hughes says he loves batting - and it shows. The precocious talent yesterday batted away questions about his representative future after scoring more than half of his...

1:00 AM AEDT | NORTH Launceston Football Club is unlikely to sign its licence agreement to take part in the proposed Statewide league at AFL Tasmania's official launch of the competition in Hobart on Monday. I...