The Mercury: TAS & Hobart News

Stay ahead of news in Tasmania with The Mercury app. From award-winning local journalism to unparalleled sport, health and education coverage, The Mercury delivers the stories that matter most to help you stay ahead. With our fearless reporting and trusted local perspectives, we are proud to tell the incredible stories from your neighborhood, across the country and around the world.

The Mercury app puts Tasmania’s news in your hand - from Hobart’s waterfront and northern suburbs to the Huon, East Coast, Launceston, North-West and West Coast. Follow the decisions, debates and dramas that affect life on the island: state politics, crime and courts, roads and transport, environment and climate, housing and cost-of-living pressures. Stay across local business, tourism, arts, food and real estate, plus what’s on around Hobart and the regions.

Keep up with Tassie sport - AFL and local leagues, cricket, racing, basketball, sailing and grassroots competitions across the state.

FOR MERCURY SUBSCRIBERS
(Available to subscribers other than Today’s Paper digital replica-only subscribers.)

• TASMANIA NEWS YOUR WAY
Set your local area and follow Mercury journalists, topics and teams. Your home screen highlights Hobart and Tasmanian stories first so you can jump straight into the news from your community.

• CUSTOMISED NOTIFICATIONS
Get alerts for the updates that matter most to Tasmanians – breaking news, severe weather and flood warnings, bushfires, major crashes and road closures, big court results and political decisions – plus sport, business and entertainment.

• READ TODAY’S PAPER ON YOUR DEVICE
Read the full digital replica of today’s Mercury wherever you are. Turn every page exactly as it appears in print, including liftouts, weekend magazines and special features.

• DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF PODCASTS
Listen to podcasts from Mercury journalists – from crime and investigations to politics, culture and Tasmanian life.

• NEW PUZZLES EXPERIENCE - Your puzzles experience has been refreshed, bringing your favourites together in one place with more to play. New puzzles include our new daily word challenge Wordrow and our new Jigsaw puzzle, allowing you to piece together powerful photography.

• MORE FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Enjoy long-form reads, special investigations, photo galleries, Kommunity TV livestreams and interactive coverage focused on Tasmania.

The Mercury app for mobile and tablet is free to download. To gain full access to the app’s content and features, simply subscribe for Subscriber-only access. Subscriber-only access gives you full digital access to thousands of subscriber-only stories, the digital replica of the paper, puzzles and more of what you love.

HOW TO GAIN FULL ACCESS:
1) Existing subscribers of The Mercury (other than subscribers to Today’s Paper digital replica) can log in to the app when prompted using their subscription details; or
2) Become a subscriber by subscribing through the app using your Apple ID.

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