Local community digs deep for Good Friday Appeal
By KATRINA BRANDON and LIAM DURKIN
LATROBE Valley locals showed their generosity in spades this Good Friday, with many community groups and businesses taking part...
Coal power is rich in world history
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE old Hazelwood brown coal power station, with its eight chimneys, dominated the Morwell skyline for six decades, and became a symbol...
No power, plenty of mayhem for Traralgon businesses
By AIDAN KNIGHT
BUSINESSES and shoppers around Traralgon CBD experienced frustration last week, as several streets lost power for a number of hours.
The Express first...
Economic authority must accept Yallourn closure concerns: council
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
THE closure of Yallourn Power Station raises many questions and ambiguities for the Latrobe Valley's premier industry and workforce.
A transition plan from...
Latrobe Christmas is coming early: Council allocates $200,000 toward decorations
By AIDAN KNIGHT
THE table lit up like Christmas at February's Latrobe City council meeting, when discussing allocation of funds towards holiday decorations.
Each year, an...
Diesel disaster, train pain
By AIDAN KNIGHT
FOLLOWING the federal government's decision to halve the fuel excise, state premiers and various chief ministers met the same week to see...
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50 years ago
The Express, April 9, 1976
18 hours a day ... for survival
NEARLY 100 dairy farmers are registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service in...
Morwell by-election confirmed
LATROBE City Council will soon seek candidates for the Morwell River Ward following the resignation of Tracie Lund.
The Victorian Electoral Commission announced today, April...
Quality output at inaugural Gippsland International Film Festival
By AIDAN KNIGHT
THE first annual Gippsland International Film Festival (GIFF) took place last month, with three nights set across Warragul, Noojee and Rokeby.
The event,...
Diesel can come from coal, yet state government won’t budge
By PHILIP HOPKINS
A MAJOR consortium has abandoned a $2 billion project to make fertiliser from Latrobe Valley’ brown coal, blaming the state government and...
Arrangements needed for precinct plan
By AIDAN KNIGHT
LATROBE City Council has moved a motion to follow up on the South East Traralgon (SET) Precinct Structure Plan.
This concerns an area...
Less transmission, lower prices: offshore wind project says
By DAVID BRAITHWAITE
GIPPSLAND offshore wind projects will lower wholesale electricity prices by reducing the amount of new transmission needed by more than 900 kilometres,...
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Pegasus return to seniors
SOCCER
LVSL
By LIAM DURKIN
GUESS who's back.
Pegasus Soccer Club are returning to the Latrobe Valley Soccer League's senior men's competition.
The Horsemen did not field a side...
