Gippsland Line disrupted
STAFF WRITERS
AN incident requiring emergency services near Traralgon forced Gippsland Line services to temporarily suspend on the morning of Wednesday, April 9.
Affected Gippsland Line...
Helping renters during housing crisis
By KATRINA BRANDON
THE state government has launched a program to help Aboriginal Victorians struggling to find or keep rentals, and to allow more people...
Uniform changes for government schools
STAFF WRITERS
FROM next year, school logos will no longer be required on shorts, pants, skirts and socks in Victorian government schools.
Premier Jacinta Allan and...
Chained to the trip
By LIAM DURKIN
LATROBE City Council passed a notice of motion at an unscheduled council meeting on Monday, March 31 to send mayor Dale Harriman...
Top Pub sells
STAFF WRITERS
MORWELL'S Top Pub has sold for $3.495 million.
The buyer is a Victorian-based investor with local business interests in the region who saw potential...
Round in circles
By PHILIP HOPKINS
A MELBOURNE-based company that uses its own innovative technology aims to set up a recycling plant in Morwell that would make the...
Five-figure fine issued for Paper Australia
STAFF WRITERS
PAPER Australia Pty Ltd was sentenced in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates' Court on Thursday, March 20 after pleading guilty to a single charge...
Out of his own pocket
By LIAM DURKIN
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
LATROBE City Councillors may have inadvertently borrowed...
COVID’s lasting impact on the health system
By ERIKA ALLEN
IN March 2020, healthcare systems had to adapt rapidly as the first wave of COVID cases arrived. Hospitals, including Central Gippsland Health...
EnergyAustralia fined and convicted
STAFF WRITERS
ENERGYAUSTRALIA was handed a $170,000 fine and a conviction after being sentenced in the Latrobe Valley County Court on March 27.
The company had...
Budget handed down, $50 tax cut
By DAVID BRAITHWATE
With the federal election called for May 3, the federal budget (released Tuesday, March 25) is seen as a taste of things...
OHS sentencing recommendations made
By TOM HAYES
FOLLOWING an extensive reviewing and reporting phase lasting about 12 months, the Sentencing Advisory Council has published 12 recommendations for sentencing regarding...