A "big spike of sugar" discharged from a chocolate factory hit a sewage treatment plant. Here's why that is bad news for swimmers in Hobart.

Cadbury’s factory at Claremont has been blamed by TasWater ... The Department of health issued a notice Thursday night ...

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs ...

As with most of the national capitals, excluding Darwin, Hobart is set to experience a fine and mostly sunny day. The mercury ...

Potentially explosive levels of noxious ‘rotten egg gas’ were discharged into the sewer network in Hobart’s northern suburbs ...

Hobart residents are being urged to avoid swimming in parts of the river Derwent after the failure of a sewerage treatment ...

Swimming has been banned at many of Hobart's beaches after industrial waste from a chocolate factory hobbled a sewage ...

The River Derwent could be off limits to swimmers for weeks, just as the holiday season gets underway, following a sewage ...

People are warned against swimming at many of Hobart's beaches after industrial waste from the Cadbury chocolate factory ...

Sewage is spilling into the River Derwent after a waste treatment plant in Hobart’s northern suburbs “failed”. The ...

Popular beaches at Sandy Bay and Howrah are not safe for swimmers, health officials warn, after a “disappointing” sewage leak ...