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.
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.
“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
Queenstown residents watched in horror as bushfires burned on the edge of their hometown. See footage of the hills surrounding the town burning.
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
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.
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.
After having been closed for weeks due to an oil spill on the lake, a West Coast water treatment plant has reopened.
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:
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.
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.
The origins of an oil spill that caused the closure of a popular spot on the West Coast remains under investigation. Why the lake is closed for more than a week during the summer season:
A remote hospital has gained new aged care facilities, an ambulance bay, and a revamped emergency department. But that is merely the first stage of the facility’s upgrades.
Following the Prime Minister’s Macquarie Harbour visit, a salmon worker says he and his co-workers are anxious about an impending decision that could see their industry removed from the West Coast.
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