6:09 PM AEDT | THE Reserve Bank has slashed its key interest rate by more than expected in its latest effort to prevent Australia's economy from sliding into a recession.

4:02 PM AEDT | TASMANIA'S population is expected to hit 500,000 this month after edging within 1837 of the mark in Australian Bureau of Statistics' data for the June 2008 quarter.

4:06 PM AEDT | POLICE have charged a 27-year-old New Norfolk man in relation to an alleged arson attack at George Town on Monday night.

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.

1:00 AM AEDT | ADELAIDE - Only now is Brett Lee recovering some of the strength he lost on an arduous and often emotionally draining tour of India. Lee fired nicely for Australia in the second Test against New Zea...

1:00 AM AEDT | TASMANIA needs maximum points from the Sheffield Shield match starting today against cellar-dwellers NSW in Sydney to stay in touch with competition breakaways Victoria and Queensland. The Tigers ar...