Hobart welcoming bids to demolish former Main Street bar
A long-shuttered bar in downtown Hobart could be no more by early spring as the city is actively pursuing demolition crews to ...
Data center eyed for 61st Avenue property, but Hobart residents dubious
A large piece of property on 61st Avenue in Hobart is back in play as the city gets into the data-center game, but residents who didn’t want a proposed warehouse complex on the site don’t want it, ...
Dean Winter and Anna Reynolds lock horns over red tape and night-time economy
A war of words has erupted between Labor leader Dean Winter and Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds over red tape and the ...
The night that broke Hobart: city braces for 50th anniversary of fatal Tasman Bridge disaster
A devastating maritime collision. A capital cut in half. A miracle Monaro escape. Twelve lives lost forever in the Derwent ...
Survivor recalls Tasman Bridge disaster 50 years after ship cut Hobart in two
Frank Manley remembers driving his family home across the Tasman Bridge at night but ahead of him the line markings ...
Council briefing on cards to address stadium’s ‘low economic return’
Hobart’s Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds will seek a full briefing for council from the economist whose scathing report found ...
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Hobart marks 50 years since the Tasman Bridge collapse disaster which killed 12 people
On the 5th of January 1975, the city of Hobart was forever changed. 12 people died when a fully laden ship left a yawning gap in the Tasman Bridge, severing the link between the city centre and almost ...
Tasman Bridge disaster: Readers remember that fateful night which shook Hobart
Mercury readers still have vivid memories of the night half a century ago when the bulk ore carrier SS Lake Illawarra brought ...