Tasmania

What should have been a day of celebration became a day of unimaginable tragedy as an infant, one-year-old Harlyn, died in a house fire at a birthday party.

His brave decision was tragically too late for a baby stuck inside the home.

The 68-year-old local man was in the passenger seat of the car.

Emergency services were called after the woman was located unresponsive on the roadway.

The driver is now facing multiple charges.

A 74-year-old former police officer has been arrested and charged over alleged child sex offences. 

An Australian couple has been charged over an alleged disturbance on a Sydney-bound flight that saw them escorted off the plane by police. 

Stunning photos and videos capture almost surreal scenes from the event.

The man’s friends also needed to be airlifted from the park.

Families of the children killed and hurt in Tasmania's Hillcrest Primary School jumping castle tragedy have launched a class action.

Police have rounded up and charged two children after they allegedly set fire to a Coles supermarket with people still inside.

A 26-year-old man is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of a 10-month-old boy he shook and dropped in a cot.

A man who was armed with a knife and threatening members of the public has been shot dead by police in a horrifying incident in the Launceston CBD.

A coroner says the death of a man was certain after a hospital incorrectly diagnosed gastrointestinal bleeding as pneumonia.

A magistrate is set to sentence a Supreme Court judge who was found guilty of assaulting and emotionally abusing a woman.