3:27 PM AEDT | THE State's woolgrowers will benefit from a restructure of Launceston's Waverley Woollen Mills and a strategic alliance agreed to recently with The Merino Company.

3:40 PM AEDT | UPDATED: TWO people have been killed in a car crash on the Bass Highway west of Devonport. Police say the first fatality was an elderly woman who died at the scene. An elderly man died later . . .

11:05 AM AEDT | A THREE-year sponsorship deal between Tasmanian financial institution B&E Personal Banking and the Launceston 10 Fun Run and Walk will ensure the future of the event.

1/12/2008 | AMC engineering lecturer Alan Belle talks to Julian Burgess about the Greenliner battery-powered boat project during its historic voyage on the Tamar River on Monday. Will Swan took the pictures . . . A full report on the voyage appears in The Examiner on Tuesday.

3:27 PM AEDT | LAUNCESTON has been chosen as the base of Australia's elite mountain bike program until the 2012 London Olympics. The announcement was made today . . .

9:15 AM AEDT | TASMANIAN basketball star Adam Gibson has spoken out about a tumultuous year that he hopes will take him from the NBL dole queue to a second premiership. The Westbury talent was staring at unemploym...