UPDATE: McSweyn finished 12th and will now switch focus to the 5,000 metre event on Wednesday.

TASMANIAN potato growers have enjoyed one of their best harvest seasons for decades.

The future of the Evandale Village Fair and National Penny Farthing Championships is at a tipping point with organisers hoping to find more volunteers at a public meeting on Wednesday night.

SUPERMARKETS chasing cheap imports, a softening in demand and stockpiling after bumper seasons have combined to slash Tasmania’s pea crop in the coming season.

TasPorts investigate incident at Grassy Harbour.

Northern Midlands cycling great Georgia Baker is attending her third Olympic Games in Paris, and the students at Cressy Primary School and Perth Primary School are showing their support, along with a local butcher shop.

UPDATED: King Island flights are unaffected for now as Rex Airlines enters voluntary administration.

Central Highlands Council has approved the St Patricks Plains Wind Farm development between Bothwell and Miena in the central highlands at a special meeting on Tuesday in the Bothwell Town Hall.

UPDATE: Flights to and from King Island are still "bookable", as Sharp Airlines offers to step in.

 KING Island's Stuart McSweyn has arrived in Paris for his Olympics campaign, where he will compete in both the 5,000 and 1,500 metre running events.