Proposed changes to deer population control and recreational hunting by the Liberals have received mixed responses from the heads of Tasmania’s peak deer and shooting organisations.

Dean Winter’s chances to become Premier have been dealt a final blow after the Greens said it would not support the foreshadowed no-confidence motion when parliament sits tomorrow.

Workers at the Derwent Valley Council are planning to take industrial action following claims from the Australian Services Union (ASU) that upper management refused to meet with them or employees.

Caitlin Radford has been named North West Vegetable Grower of the Year at Simplot Australia’s Annual Grower Awards held at Devonport’s Paranaple Centre.

UPDATED: The salmon industry has hit back at the Premier over his announced review of Tasmania's salmon industry as a "shameful betrayal."

Read the latest instalment of the Jim Osborne Memoirs.

Government organisations and firewood businesses are alarmed by the increase in people illegally cutting down trees on private and crown land.

The Tasmanian aquaculture industry is seeking advice from the state government to address an endemic bacteria that has persisted in salmon farms and has been responsible for recent fish deaths at a Huon Aquaculture pen in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.

The Heritage and Bullock Festival at Oatlands last weekend brought both new and familiar faces back into the historic town and took everyone on a trip down memory lane.

The offers rolled in to breed from three-year-old colt Bodyguard at a spectacular launch of the $1.6 thoroughbred at Armidale Stud, Carrick, on Saturday.