Sandy Powell is a social reporter based in Burnie. He moved to Tasmania in 2018 and has spent years working in Tasmania's north-west and reporting on the local community.
A teacher who taught some of the young victims of the 2021 jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania has told an inquest about the day of the heartbreaking incident and how much their deaths affected his life.
With the long-awaited first voyage done, passengers aboard one of the new Spirit of Tasmania ferries give their verdicts.
A woman who set a fire in a mental health ward in a north-west Tasmanian public hospital has pleaded guilty to arson.
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff is being urged to apologise after one of his social media posts about a public school renaming a Christmas event caused an online stir.
A tiny Tasmanian town's first local GP in nine years has arrived, all the way from Scotland.
Topic: Doctors and Medical Professionals
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
With Tasmania's salmon industry bracing for marine heatwave conditions this summer, one company is about to begin injecting fish with an antibacterial drug — with its preferred antibiotic option still off the table after the permit to use was revoked.
Topic: Fishing and Aquaculture Industry
Andrew Hilfenhaus has been fined less than $500 for a driving crime he was charged with in the wake of a young footballer's death.
A police officer tells a court the jumping castle tragedy at Hillcrest Primary School in 2021 was like nothing he had seen in almost 30 years in the service.
The way a hospital identifies its patients has changed, in the wake of the deaths of six children during a freak jumping castle incident in Tasmania in 2021, an inquest hears.
First responders who attended the Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy in 2021, at which six children died, are still feeling the effects, an inquest has heard.
A man who drove over a family's tent in a Tasmanian campground early on New Year's Day in 2022 has been jailed.
A plan to build a 280-turbine wind farm on public land on Tasmania's west coast is being touted as an economic boon, but it's also stoking fears for native wildlife.
H5 bird flu has now been detected across Tasmania, with vaccination efforts for captive orange-bellied parrots, which are critically endangered, getting underway.
David Mason almost drowned in waters off Tasmania's north-west in January. Several Triple Zero calls were made by bystanders, but call logs show two hours passed between the first call and police arriving.
A Tasmanian man who held a chainsaw to the throat of a teenager whom he believed had stolen from him has been jailed.
Police say an elderly South Australian couple missing in north-west Tasmania have been found safe with minor injuries after their car became stuck after driving on an unsealed road.
A Victorian bushwalker who wanted to climb Federation Peak in Tasmania's south-west as part of his "bucket list" had turned back with his companions when he fell, a coroner says.
A Tasmanian bottle shop worker who earned the nickname The Enforcer after she used a roller door to deter would-be thieves was sacked by her employer, BWS. But now, Wendy is back in business.
The criminal record of a 55-year-old man whose dangerous driving caused the death of a motorcyclist has been described by a judge as among the worst she has seen.
A fire that completely destroyed an ambulance parked outside the West Coast District Hospital in Tasmania has been deemed accidental, with no one injured.
A north-west Tasmanian waste management company says it has a $700,000 per year problem, and council ratepayers are picking up the tab.
A teenage boy was "terrified" during an assault by two brothers, during which he was kidnapped and menaced with a chainsaw in a shipping container in Tasmania in 2023.
A coroner details how friends of a 21-year-old footballer who fell from the back of a ute doing a burnout delayed seeking proper medical help because they were worried the driver would be in trouble.
With the victim of the Coles Bay alleged home invasion slowly recovering, the row over the Tasmanian government's insistence it will not limit the number of guns a licence holder can own rages on.
