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Students from Wynyard High School, Tasmania. Picture: Wynyard SHS

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Small towns, big results: Tassie’s best regional high schools

Small Tasmanian rural schools have dominated the state’s education power rankings, with Wynyard High’s principal revealing the secret behind their success. Explore the full list.

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Bendigo Bank. Picture: supplied

West Coast Council to fight Queenstown bank closure

Tasmania’s West Coast faces a major blow as its last remaining bank branch prepares to close, leaving residents facing a two-hour drive for services. Now, local leaders are vowing to fight for their community.

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Bay of Fires, season 2. ABC TV. Pamela Rabe as Magda. FOR TASWEEKEND. Do not use before June 7, 2025. Picture: Supplied

‘Favourite place in the world’: Why actor Pamela Rabe loves Tassie life

She plays commanding, complex and sometimes kooky characters in some of Australia’s best-known films and TV shows. But actor Pamela Rabe also enjoys living a simpler existence in Tasmania

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West Coast Wilderness Railway, Queenstown, Tasmania credit: Nick Osborne escape 8 august 2021 hotlist scenic railways

Record hotel occupancy rates for Tassie region

A Tasmanian region has recorded its highest occupancy rates, while a popular tourist attraction in the same area has seen its strongest numbers since the Covid pandemic. However, it is not all positives for the region.

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Tassal salmon pens, in Macquarie Harbour, Strahan, West Coast of Tasmania Picture: MATHEW FARRELL fish / pen / salmon / farm / fish farm / net / cage / aquaculture

Senate protests not enough to stop salmon legislation passing

The passing of controversial legislation to secure the future of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour has triggered a range of reactions ranging from celebration to dismay.

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Alone Australia Season 3. Tasmanian contestant Corinne. For TasWeekend March 22, 2025 edition. Please do not use before then. Picture: Narelle Portanier

Meet the adventurous new Tassie star of Alone Australia

“I’m not your typical survival specialist’’: Tasmania’s Corinne Ooms is bringing grit, creativity and a positive outlook to the new season of Alone Australia, filmed in Tassie’s remote wilderness

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Two separate bushfires are burning at Queenstown. Picture: David Newall.

WATCH: Residents ‘flabbergasted’ over Queenstown bushfire

Queenstown residents watched in horror as bushfires burned on the edge of their hometown. See footage of the hills surrounding the town burning.

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The Tasmanian Fire Service's Remote Area Team continue to control and contain bushfires on the state's West Coast. Picture: Warren Frey

‘Frightening scenes’: West Coast’s cruel summer

Tassie’s West Coast had bushfires burn through almost 100,000 hectares, a popular lake close due to an oil spill, and a key industry threatened to be shut down. But it also brought out the best in the community. SPECIAL READ

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North West strike team at Zeehan on February 13th. Picture: North Motton Fire Brigade

Zeehan resident describes how bushfires got dangerously close

For Central Hotel Zeehan Publican Larry Cuevas, it was the smoke that was the toughest part of having to deal with the bushfires that are ravaging the West Coast.

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View from the summit of Mt Oakleigh showing the southern fire front on the flanks of Pelion West. The bushfire has now impacted the Overland Track in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. Picture: Shaun Mittwollen ****THE MERCURY ONLY USE - SEE NIKKI DAVIS-JONES****

WATCH: Guide gets perfect vantage point of West Coast bushfires

It was a race to get up to the summit of Mount Oakleigh, but Shaun Mittwollen managed to see the West Coast bushfires better than most. Here’s what it was like seeing the fires so close.

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Oil slick can be seen at Lake Rosebery on 24 January 2025. Picture: Darren Briggs

Water plant reopens as lake oil spill clean-up continues

After having been closed for weeks due to an oil spill on the lake, a West Coast water treatment plant has reopened.

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Oil on the shore of Lake Rosebery. Picture: Supplied

Dedicated oiled wildlife spotter deployed, lake clean up continues

Lake Rosebery will remain closed for two more weeks while the clean up crew undertakes trials to determine the best method for removing up to 4,500 litres of oil. The latest:

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Oil in the water at Lake Rosebery. Picture: Supplied.

‘It sucks’: Town left reeling following oil spill

Water is having to be brought in by truck, and the normally bustling tourist town of Tullah on the West Coast is ‘very quiet’ after a popular lake was shut to the public due to an oil spill.

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Lake Rosebery and Mount Murchison near Tullah. PICTURE CHRIS KIDD

Oil spill results in extended closure of popular lake

An estimated 5000 litres of oil has spilt into a Tasmanian lake, forcing the EPA to launch a clean-up operation. How the oil ended up in the lake.

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