As Frank Manley drove onto the Tasman Bridge 50 years ago, he had no idea that a fully laden cargo ship had just crashed into it, leaving a 127-metre gap. It was a drizzly summer's evening ...

Fifty years have passed since the MV Lake Illawarra collided with Hobart’s Tasman Bridge on January 5, 1975, killing 12 people. The disaster claimed the lives of seven crew members on board the vessel ...

Cars teeter on the edge of the Tasman Bridge after it collapsed on January 5, 1975. Picture: Don Stephens One of the Mercury’s first reports about the disaster was headlined “Families teetered ...

Multiple pedestrians got hit by a car Monday evening in Silver Spring. The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) said ...

Tasmania is preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tasman Bridge disaster with a bridge closure and lighting display this weekend. On Sunday, it will be exactly five decades since the MV Lake ...

Despite the passage of 50 years, the epic tragedy of Hobart’s Tasman Bridge disaster remains barely believable, even for those who were present on the fateful evening in January, 1975.

It was 9.27pm on January 5, 1975, and less than two weeks after Cyclone Tracy had decimated Darwin, another disaster was about to stun Australia. The ship was off course as it neared the bridge ...

Silver is considered cheaper than gold. For example, if one gramme of silver Rs 61.40 today, you can buy 1 kg of the precious metal for Rs 61,400. But you will get a little over 10 gms of gold at ...