Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: Ten years ago, the small northern Tasmanian town of Beaconsfield was etched into the ...

Brant Webb and Todd Russell were miraculously rescued in Tasmania. 6 years later Lachy Hulme and Shane Jacobson dramatised their story.

A West Island rescue team formed after the 1998 ice storm has resigned en masse because of shoddy treatment they claim they got at City Hall. Fifteen members of the Beaconsfield Volunteer Rescue Squad ...

Twenty years after the Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania which killed one man and entombed two others, the memories remain. On Anzac Day in 2006, a minor earthquake in Beaconsfield in northeast ...

Perhaps surprisingly, some of those repercussions are positive. The tunnels that run more than 1km beneath Beaconsfield have been abandoned and allowed to flood, the mine’s iconic A-shaped headframe ...

On this day in 2006 all eyes were on Tasmania as news of a mining disaster trapping three men underground broke.

On the 20th anniversary of the Beaconsfield Mine Collapse, survivor Brant Webb reflects on being trapped underground in 2006 and its lasting impact.

THEY shared a beer but Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell have little desire to spend any more time together. The pair attended a community event on Monday marking the 10th anniversary of ...

What’s going for it? I could probably afford a three-bedroom detached town house round these parts. Trouble is, it’s 2ft high. Actually, I bet I couldn’t even afford a rabbit hutch in Beaconsfield’s ...