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A senior police officer has described the horror start to the year on Tasmania’s roads as “very frightening” after three deaths were recorded in the space of just two days.

Knife crime reform advocate Laraine Ludwig has delivered crowd-funded knife-detecting metal wands to Tasmania Police.

Three shootings have occurred in northern Hobart in the space of a week, with police saying two appear to be related.

Tasmania Police has seized 40 guns, including eight unregistered and stored incorrectly, along with 250 kilograms of ...

The alarming rise of homemade weapons has prompted Tasmania Police to crack down on 3D-printed guns that anyone can ...

Tasmania Police say information is being withheld over a string of shootings across Hobart’s northern suburbs — two of which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Police in Australia's Tasmania said on Sunday they would join a privately organised search for a ...

A major police probe into the bizarre theft of toxic poppy capsules from a regulated crop in Tasmania’s Northern Midlands ...

Police in Tasmania were busy this week dealing with a “sealebrity” on the loose and sitting on cars. The official Facebook page of the police department in Tasmania, Australia posted pictures of the ...

(CNN) — Hopes of finding a Belgian tourist alive in Australia are fading more than one week after she went missing on the island-state of Tasmania, with police saying recent weather conditions in the ...