Project X manager Lucy Bleach, with DarkLab executive director Jude Gun and creative producer Theia Connell, and Destination Southern Tasmania’s Alex Heroys, visited Geeveston last Thursday night to talk to local business and tourism operators about the next stage of the $2 million Federal and State Government funded, arts based, bushfire recovery project for the Huon Valley. After a sell-out...

In this week's Huon News we have a look at the progress of Project X, the Federal and State Government funded arts based, bushfire recovery project for the Huon Valley.  The extension of the first work, the second installation and the progress of the major project. We also catch up with Rural Youth, which held a community resilience day in Ranelagh last Saturday around mental health...

DarkLab creative producer Theia Connell visited Geeveston last night with the details of the second stage of art based recovery Project X for the Huon Valley - don't miss next week's Huon News for the full report.  

Tasmanian Devils in the Channel region are now fighting not one, but two transmissible facial tumours - Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease (DFTD), which has now been around for some 25 years, and the newer devil facial tumour two (DFT2), discovered in the Cygnet  area around five years ago. New research from the University of Tasmania, published in the leading journal Evolutionary...

With the Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival less than two weeks away, this week the Huon News heads along to Young Dawkins' storytelling workshop for potential young entrants in the Growing Stories - Kids Storytelling Slam, we also check out how the inaugural sculpture competition is shaping up. In Huon Valley Council news, we take a look at the proposed sale of the Cygnet Medical Centre,...