01 Jan 06 | TAMIKA Johnston will be keeping an eye on the officials as well as her competitors when she bids for her second Burnie Gift today.
01 Jan 06 | SNUG is hard enough to find on the Tasmanian map, but it is just as well Latrobe Gift winner, Mark Nichols hails from there, as it may ensure that Tasmania plays a part in a little bit of trivia history from this season's Coastal Carnival series.
01 Jan 06 | Paul Revere, US patriot (1735-1818); Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955); Kim Philby, British intelligence officer, Soviet spy (1912-1988); J. D. Salinger, US author (1919); David Lynch, US film director (1946); Grandmaster Flash, US rapper (1958).
01 Jan 06 | Launceston will have a lot of distractions
TASMANIA enters 2006 with a lot riding on two major decisions.
The State is still travelling well, although not with the same excitement in the economy as when it surged in 2003 and 2004.
01 Jan 06 | HELEN KEMPTON tracks the history of this popular New Year's Day event. In the 1860s, Burnie's first picnic sports were held on geese-flattened grassland
01 Jan 06 | THE number of migrants and refugees entering Tasmania has risen by almost 60 per cent in the past 10 years.
01 Jan 06 | NEW YORK - Moderate alcohol intake appears to be associated with a decreased risk of kidney cancer in middle-aged and older women, according to a study conducted in Sweden.
01 Jan 06 | PLAINVILLE, Connecticut - It's been super-sized, made entirely out of chocolate and played upside down for 36 hours. So taking the game of Monopoly underwater wasn't too far-fetched for a group of scuba diving students at a US high school.
01 Jan 06 | MELBOURNE - Melbourne's leading jockey this season, Danny Nikolic, was suspended for careless riding at Moonee Valley yesterday.
Nikolic, rider of Tereschenko, who was runner-up to California Dane in the Damien Oliver Hcp (1200m), was found guilty of causing interference to the third-placed Stickpin on the home turn.
01 Jan 06 | SYDNEY - Victorian cricket coach Greg Shipperd and assistant David Saker have been charged with serious dissent over an incident during the ING Cup game against Tasmania in Launceston two weeks ago.
01 Jan 06 | FRAN VOSS reports on the implications for hoteliers. HOTEL owners are gearing up for an anticipated downturn in business as a result of tough new anti-smoking laws that came into effect at midnight.
01 Jan 06 | VIENNA - Her Majesty would not have been amused.
Neither would US President George W. Bush or French counterpart Jacques Chirac over a Vienna- wide art project depicting them naked and frolicking with the Queen.
31 Dec 05 | Eighteen-year-old Devonport cyclist Jarrod Harman won the most prestigious race of his short cycling career in taking out the Matthews Constructions Devonport Wheel Race at the Devonport Oval last night.
31 Dec 05 | Nicole Perry ensured some home-town success by winning the $2000 Sunday Examiner women's 800m last night.
The Devonport teenager said she had fond memories of attending the Christmas carnival series and was thrilled to claim her first title.
31 Dec 05 | CANBERRA - Huge fuel loads are combining with high temperatures to create some of Canberra's most dangerous conditions since the devastating firestorm of two years ago.
31 Dec 05 | The Exhibition Building at Inveresk has been leased for $1, leaving a $500,000 hole in the budget of the cultural and educational precinct.
31 Dec 05 | Planning guidelines the next battleground of debate
Another step in the Tamar Valley pulp mill proposal was taken this week when the Resource Planning and Development Commission guidelines were finally revealed.
31 Dec 05 | RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho has become the star of a comic book named after him.
31 Dec 05 | Reinsman Christian Salter is free to drive in tomorrow's $120,000 Wrest Point Tasmanian Pacing Championship after successfully appealing against suspension.
Salter will resume his association with top local chance Albert Jones in the Championship final.
31 Dec 05 | R M I HS Ave 100S Ricky Ponting (Aus) 1544 15 28 207 67.13 6 Matthew Hayden (Aus) 1380 15 29 138 53.
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