Clancy Balen is a journalist and producer at ABC News Hobart.
He was awarded Best New Journalist at the 2024 MEAA Tasmanian Media Awards. Previously, he worked as a journalist at The Examiner in Launceston.
You can contact Clancy at [email protected]
A gardening program in Hobart is helping people with dementia reconnect with the world around them. Researchers hope the lessons from these outdoor spaces will help more people continue to live well.
The Tasmanian government was advised to approve a $20 million loan to the country's only manganese smelter last year despite knowing the risk of not getting all the money back was high, as inaction was deemed too risky.
Topic: State and Territory Government
Half a dozen unauthorised mountain bike tracks have been closed across Kunanyi/Mount Wellington this year. It has led a small group of riders to use popular walking tracks as an alternative.
Audrey McAllister was followed by a group of men after a shift. The nurses union says a lack of safe and affordable parking options is putting workers at risk.
As bushfire season approaches, new modelling is giving Tasmanian communities a clearer picture of where fire could burn most severely.
Australia is facing an abnormally late surge in influenza infections this year, but the total number of cases is predicted to be far fewer than in 2025.
The arrival of Hull 096 in Uruguay marks the end of a years-long journey to build and deliver the world’s largest battery-electric vehicle.
Tony returned a positive result from a bowel cancer screening kit in June. Almost three months later, he is still waiting for an endoscopy to find out if he has cancer.
A revised Tasmanian Health Department performance target will allow for almost one in three patients to wait longer than they should for elective surgery.
Search and rescue teams are continuing to look for Tasmanian pilot Bob Bramley's plane, after it crashed into remote waters off the NT coast on Tuesday.
The remains of an itinerant man who was never reported missing have been identified more than three years after his skull was found.
An inquiry into bullying and discrimination within Tasmanian schools has made 33 recommendations, including a blanket call for "all schools" to implement anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies.
Greyhound races held under the name "We Stand With Tasmania", in support of the state's embattled industry, have featured a number of dog fall incidents which have been scrubbed from the record.
Australia's only manganese alloy smelter has closed, leaving the future of the site uncertain and the country more reliant on imported alloys for steel production.
For more than 30 years, John O'Toole has quietly helped build a local soccer club. On Sunday, he surpassed his 600th match while playing alongside his sons.
An Aboriginal activist has told a Tasmanian court she has a cultural obligation to "protect lands that are being slaughtered", after she was charged with trespassing while protesting in a logging coupe.
An Aboriginal activist has interrogated forestry company staff over their knowledge of cultural heritage as part of her defence against a trespass charge.
Vaccinations for the rare but potentially deadly meningococcal B disease are now free for all Tasmanian infants for the next four years.
More than five tonnes of antibiotics were used to treat a disease that killed 9,000 tonnes of fish last summer, Salmon Tasmania says.
Topic: Fishing and Aquaculture Industry
Experts say it is a matter of when, not if, a deadly strain of bird flu reaches Tasmania, and popular marine visitor Neil the seal is not isolated from the threat, despite his relatively solo lifestyle.
An economist says Marinus Link remains an investment in the national interest and will shore up Tasmania's energy security. It follows a report last week questioning the project's business case.
Topic: Electricity Production and Distribution
Tasmania's cool climate and access to renewable energy has made it an attractive place for AI data centre investment, but energy industry voices are warning that the business case for the Marinus Link project appears increasingly unviable if power-hungry players such as AI data centres continue to expand across the state.
Jeremy Rockliff has confirmed in parliament that taxpayer-funded legal fees have been used by former ministers Jane Howlett and Madeleine Ogilvie to fight the Integrity Commission.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The federal, Tasmanian and South Australian governments have contributed to a new funding package for Nyrstar's Hobart and Port Pirie smelters, including money for feasibility studies into modernising and expanding their operations.
A coroner has found a doctor's prescription of drugs to two drug-dependent patients had a "direct causative role" in their deaths. Their report says the doctor had a "permissive approach to opioid prescribing" for more than two decades.
Topic: Doctors and Medical Professionals