MELBOURNE, Australia (JTA) — Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state in both population and size, is home to about half a million people. It is best known for its rugged terrain, its breathtaking natural ...

If you want to escape it all, there's remote, and then there's Tasmania. The island off the southeastern coast of Australia is more than 10,000 miles and 15 time zones from New York and an 11-hour ...

Tasmania was once considered the backwater of Australia: the southernmost point of the country, an isolated island reaching toward the Antarctic where the winds are fierce and temperatures routinely ...

Tasmania, Australia’s island jewel, is no longer just a blip at the bottom of the map—over the years, it has become a sizzling hotbed of cultural and culinary dynamism, too. In the throes of an ...

“It’s a bit warm for the wombats, mate,” an Aussie hiker lamented when we crossed paths at a coastal headland on Maria Island, a wild and mountainous speck in Australia’s southernmost state, Tasmania.

Everyone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind–style ...

A small aircraft with three occupants has been missing since August 2 after taking off from Tasmania in Australia, sparking a host of conspiracy theories. The plane with two people and their pet dog ...

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 area are ...

The One-Day Cup final now sits between the ninth and tenth rounds of the Sheffield Shield where Tasmania are also pushing for ...