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150 firearm checks completed

MORE than 150 firearm checks have recently been conducted across Latrobe Valley. Officers from Traralgon Uniform and Morwell Divisional Response Unit - assisted by the...

Preparation is key: Erica brigade

By KATRINA BRANDON     RECENT bushfires have highlighted the importance of planning ahead. While there are no localised fires in the Latrobe Valley region, authorities warn that...

Australia Day events across Latrobe

AUSTRALIA Day will be celebrated across Latrobe City, with free community events to take place at Boolarra, Churchill, Moe, Morwell, Toongabbie, Traralgon, Yallourn North...

Not your average morning commute

By AIDAN KNIGHT     A NEWBOROUGH woman was hospitalised after a single-vehicle crash on the Princes Highway near Moe last Thursday (January 15). Traffic was brought to...

High grass, high farce

By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT     STRETCHING all across Traralgon-Maffra Road, overgrown vegetation has plagued the much-traversed country strip. Renewed calls have been made by locals for the unkempt...

Morwell the worst town? Hardly

By LIAM DURKIN     IT’s on TikTok so it must be true. Some bloke who goes by the name of ‘tedsthetics’ on social media labelled Morwell the...

Fire-affected livestock find place to stay in Gippsland

By LIAM DURKIN     COUNTRY folk doing what they do best. Farmers across the region have extended the olive branch to those up north affected by bushfires. With...

Community rallies: Yinnar business left to pick up the pieces

By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT AND KATRINA BRANDON     A SHINING light of Yinnar is being threatened with permanent closure under its current owners after the ATM ram raid...

Hazelwood home of AI? $10 billion deal on the table

By LIAM DURKIN     A MEGA-DEAL that will see a $10 billion data centre built near the former Hazelwood power station site is being proposed. Singapore-based Keppel...

Single-vehicle crash on Princes Freeway

A Newborough woman was taken to hospital after a single-vehicle crash on the Princes Freeway near the John Field–Princes on-ramp at Hernes Oak about...

Chester ‘transparent’ about travel claim

By DAVID BRAITHWAITE   MEMBER for Gippsland Darren Chester is one of more than 50 federal MPs named in a newspaper report as using taxpayer-funded travel...

Celebrating women in dairy

By KATRINA BRANDON   INDIVIDUAL and collective innovation is spread throughout Gippsland. At the 2025 Women in Dairy Discussion Group (WID) end-of-year luncheon, about 200 people gathered...

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150 firearm checks completed

MORE than 150 firearm checks have recently been conducted across Latrobe Valley. Officers from Traralgon Uniform and Morwell Divisional Response Unit - assisted by the...