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No bloodletting on diesel fuel

By PHILIP HOPKINS   THE industrialist Allan Blood aims to return to the Latrobe Valley to build a multi-billion-dollar diesel fuel production plant from gasifying the...

Up above the world so high

By PEACE IJIYERA   A FLIGHT Test Range Command Centre has been officially opened at Latrobe Regional Airport. The facility will allow for testing, manufacturing, development and...

Premier orders cost review of proposed transmission line

By DAVID BRAITHWAITE   THERE are questions over the future of a proposed $1.6 billion power transmission line. Premier Ben Carroll has ordered a cost review of...

Swooping season safety

LATROBE City Council is reminding residents to be aware of swooping birds as the spring nesting season begins across the region. Native birds, including magpies,...

Morwell households trial all-electric power

By PEACE IJIYERA   A COLLABORATION by AusNet and Gippsland Climate Change Network (GCCN), the Morwell ElectriFAIRcation project is a $1.5 million project trialled to assist...

Monitoring air quality around Morwell East

FOLLOWING community feedback and a review of air monitoring data, EPA Victoria is consolidating air quality monitoring activities at Morwell East. As part of the...

Cup full of capability

By HANNAH WATKINS   LEARNING to last a lifetime. Gippsland Trades and Labour Council was proud to celebrate its latest graduates who completed the 'A Cup of...

Battery in the works at Hazelwood Nth

By STEFAN BRADLEY   CEREMONIAL sods were turned last week to celebrate construction on a renewable energy project in Hazelwood North. Bennetts Creek Battery Energy Storage System,...

Surgical precision in and out of the classroom

By KATRINA BRANDON and CHRIS GRETTON   A WHIRLWIND of sound filled the Federation University, Churchill campus earlier this month. Projecting to an audience of around 200,...

Bird flu regulations extended

AS H5 bird flu continues to spread among wild birds along much of Victoria's coastline, the requirement for targeted biosecurity measures to be implemented...

From the archives with Katrina Brandon

50 years ago The Express, September 22, 1976 Fire night for public   THE Narracan group of fire brigades will be holding a fire education night on Friday...

Morwell magnesium on hold, jobs denied

By PHILIP HOPKINS LATROBE MAGNESIUM has put on hold its plan to develop a magnesium smelter in Morwell but instead will build a huge smelter...

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Fighting fury on the way to flag

NETBALL GIPPSLAND LEAGUE By LIAM DURKIN   A PREMIERSHIP went back to Tigerland at the weekend. Morwell Football-Netball Club won the Gippsland League C Grade title, defeating Traralgon in...