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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...

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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...