11/11/2008 | A $13 million plan to demolish 68 South Launceston retirement homes and replace them with 120 units and other buildings is being considered by Launceston City Council.
Cosgrove Park aged care centre...
11/11/2008 | MAJOR action can be expected on improving Launceston's flood levees early next year but a full solution will take several years.
11/11/2008 | A 170-year-old is in blooming good health and on display at City Park.
It is a wisteria climbing vine but looks like a tree after almost 200 years of growth.
Launceston City Council gardener Les...
11/11/2008 | CONVENIENCE of central city living and job security is driving Launceston real estate prices higher.
Real Estate of Tasmania figures for the September quarter show a 41 per cent increase in the me...
11/11/2008 | A MONEY expert will next week explain how to minimise risk during the world financial crisis.
Experienced share investor and Australian Technical Analysts Association member Jack Hummerstone will ...
11/11/2008 | HERITAGE enthusiasts are calling for a now derelict near-city centre paddock to be restored and sympathetically developed instead of becoming a car parts centre.
Helen Tait and Nancy Serisier say th...
11/11/2008 | AN extra $9 million a year from 60,000 more tourists is the promise for the Trail Of The Tin Dragon.
Telling the story of Chinese tin miners in the North-East, trail chairman and Dorset Mayor Peter ...
4/11/2008 | HOPES are high that the stricken Aquarius Roman Baths will soon be back in full swing after financial difficulties hit the George St wellbeing centre.
HOPES are high that the stricken Aquarius Roman Bat...
4/11/2008 | SPORT enthusiasts have welcomed a plan to have a tennis centre in Launceston with 11 floodlit courts, cafe and shop open next year.
The Launceston City Council plans to convert the former ABC Bowls ...
4/11/2008 | RED bicycles and riding paths connecting Newham to Inveresk are being considered as part of a strategy to boost the University of Tasmania's profile in the city.
Called the UTAS City Planning Gu...
4/11/2008 | A NEW fence, which looks like an old one, is about to replace a sagging effort to resolve a long-running heritage issue at a South Launceston hotel.
The Empire Hotel Tasmania, at the corner of Welli...
4/11/2008 | A DETAILED plan to upgrade Aurora Stadium is expected to be revealed before Christmas.
The Launceston City Council last month approved an outline master plan to move the fire-damaged Northern Stan...
4/11/2008 | ALAN Taylor is a poet, Tourettes sufferer and Greens adviser and now he's a living book.
Living Library is a program from the Launceston Library where people with interesting lives are "loaned...
28/10/2008 | MORE than 300 people say on-street trading, parking and sign restrictions could turn the city into a ghost town and a politician is pursuing their concerns.
Back to Back store owner in Charles St Li...
28/10/2008 | FROM PAGE 1
"I would suggest something that is a little more in keeping with the site and the type of architecture than the previous (de Kantzow) development.
"It was overtaken by other developm...
28/10/2008 | JUNE 15 is when Rocherlea Primary students should be settling into their new home on the nearby Brooks High campus.
Rocherlea principal Malcolm Hales said the move was exciting because the $3.91 mil...
28/10/2008 | DEVELOPMENT of Launceston's C.H. Smith site could be delayed until the next economic boom, says the State's heritage boss.
28/10/2008 | GET out the digital camera to help your children read, so says a top education academic.
University of Tasmania Dean of Education Ian Hay, based at Newnham, has given a public lecture on exploring...
28/10/2008 | A bookworm since childhood, it seems appropriate that Clive Tilsley should run a bookstore that's recognised the nation over, as FRAN VOSS discovered...
28/10/2008 | MUSIC moves Ted Hicks to tears and he has spent about 50 years playing in bands and he believes the younger generation is missing out.
He conducts the Launceston Railway Silver Band and plays with t...