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The Huon Valley Medieval Festival and Renaissance Fair took place at the Castle Forbes Bay Recreation Grounds over the weekend of August 8.

The Cygnet Association (tCA) is set to bring year-round colour and interest to both ends of Mary Street in Cygnet via a new banner project featuring the artwork of local ...

Wild catch fishing groups have adopted a formal policy opposing the use of the antibiotic florfenicol in Tasmanian waters, escalating a dispute with the salmon farming industry over chemical residues ...

The state government is seeking a private operator to take over the Hastings Thermal Springs Precinct, drawing criticism from Labor and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).Parks Minister Nick ...

This time last week, the Huon News reported that the Cygnet Family Practice After Hours and Urgent Care Clinic would close at the end of June - a victim of ...

Cygnet loses after-hours urgent careHuon Valley's only after-hours medical service will cease as part of Eric Abetz's 'operational efficiencies,' otherwise known as health budget cuts.Cygnet Family Practice Urgent and After-Hours ...

A community meeting at Cygnet Town Hall on Saturday set the wheels turning on an ambitious plan to buy the long-closed bottom pub (Commercial Hotel) through a cooperative ownership structure.An ...

The organisation has been active in Tasmania since 1936; apolitical, not-for-profit and secular.It exists as a means by which women can make a difference in the lives of others.Within a ...

Tasmanian mothers affected by historical forced adoption practices can now apply for a $10,000 payment under an interim redress scheme before the scheme officially begins in the middle of the ...

The Taste of the Huon may have been on down the road, but it was Sunday's Judbury Market which held the interest of the Huon Valley's best zucchini growers.Following on ...

An electric wheelchair is your only means of independent mobility.This should mean you can go out and get a coffee.But the footpath between Huon Regional Care (HRC) in Franklin and ...

For most locals, the Wooden Boat Centre (WBC) is the place you drive past on the way to the supermarket. In the wooden maritime world, however, it’s a beacon — ...

After 42 years driving thousands of children to and from schools all over the Huon Valley, Cathy Griggs has decided enough is enough and she is calling it quits.Cathy is ...

A sign on the old wooden jetty on Lymington Road in Cygnet reads, 'Permanent Closure Notice'.Long Point Jetty is to be 'decommissioned and removed' because a new, 'state-of-the-art facility' (a ...

The Lions Club of Huon thanked the Huon Valley businesses and the community who supported the Christmas parade and festivities on Saturday, November 29.