Loretta Lohberger is a journalist at ABC Hobart. She began her career in 2005 at the Circular Head Chronicle and has also been a political and court reporter at The Launceston Examiner, and a court and religious affairs reporter at the Hobart Mercury. In 2019 and 2020, Loretta won the Excellence in Legal Reporting category at the Tasmanian Media Awards.
A group of parents of transgender and gender diverse children has written to Tasmanian MPs urging them to support a bill that would ban harmful conversion practices in the state.
Tasmania's troubled health system has had a piecemeal approach to addressing its issues, the state's peak medical body says, as it calls for an independent inquiry that would look at the problems holistically.
In her first interview since a parole condition preventing her from speaking to the media was lifted, the convicted murderer explains why she told police a lie and how she "can't remain quiet".
As part of its conservation efforts in Tasmania, the Landscape Recovery Foundation is working with photographers to help them understand how to minimise their impact when photographing orchids, and is working with a scent detection dog to help map orchids growing in the wild.
Topic: Endangered and Protected Species
A code of conduct panel found Glenorchy Alderman Peter Ridler breached the code by touching female staff and telling one to "stick to your knitting and get back to the kitchen".
Police are investigating after a car crashed into a shopfront in Tasmania's north-west while attempting to park, seriously injuring two pedestrians.
Topic: Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents
After a 23-month wait to receive her own records from the Tasmanian government, Sam Morgan's civil legal case against the state can finally progress. But her lawyer says many people are losing access to justice because of long waits for records.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff confirms the conscience vote on the issue as Liberal MPs Felix Ellis and Michael Ferguson say they will be voting "no".
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
About 30 campgrounds at 10 national parks and conservation areas in Tasmania are part of a new online booking system that will launch from November 3.
Craft activities, such as knitting and crochet, can have a number of brain health benefits, from helping improve attention to forging connections with others.
Police are alleging the Huonville woman was smothered by her 55-year-old son.
Judging daffodils at flower shows isn't something Robert and Kerrie Goudsouzian ever thought they'd do. But, as judge numbers dwindle, they are learning the finer points of judging and say it's "just lovely".
After years of delays and cost blowouts, Spirit of Tasmania IV has arrived in its home port of Devonport for testing ahead of October sailings.
A parliamentary inquiry, proposed by the Tasmanian government, will examine aspects of the sale of the state's largest farm to a UK investment firm that has plans for a large pine plantation on the site.
Topic: Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry
As legislation to ban greyhound racing in Tasmanian remains stalled, a handful of racing participants have expressed interest in joining a compensation scheme to leave the industry.
With the Hawthorn Hawks' state-sponsored home games in Launceston to stop after next season, there's a mix of sadness, nostalgia and hope.
Police were called to a house in Exeter, where they say a woman had received "serious stab wounds". A short time later, the man who police believe inflicted the wounds died in a car crash, which also left a third person seriously injured.
Topic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents
The brother of Royal Hobart Hospital doctor Artyom Avetisyan says the cardiothoracic surgery registrar sounded "extremely exhausted" in the week before his crash death.
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents
Dark Mofo's Nude Solstice Swim marks the end of Tasmania's fortnight-long winter arts festival.
Michael Tate — an academic, politician, diplomat and Catholic priest — has been remembered as a generous man whose life was one of "warmth and service to others".
Topic: Funerals and Memorial Services
Former Tasmanian senator and Catholic priest Michael Tate, who made the move from politics to the priesthood, has been remembered as "someone who gives himself to his people".
Tasmania's Natural Resources and Environment Department has confirmed the antibiotic florfenicol was detected at a 'low level' in wild seafood 14 kilometres from where the drug was administered.
Topic: Fishing and Aquaculture Industry
"You can ask it in 50 different ways … I won't be commenting any further", the Tasmanian premier says as he responds to questioning in parliament from Labor and the Greens.
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
Two southern Tasmanian primary health services have been thrown a one-year lifeline, but the state government says it wants the federal government to step in and fund the programs beyond that.
Tasmania's Anglican Church says what it expects to pay in compensation to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse has more than doubled in the past three years.