Black Saturday Churchill arsonist found guilty
A FORMER Country Fire Authority volunteer has been convicted of deliberately lighting a bushfire on Black Saturday that claimed the lives of 10 people in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
Man found guilty of starting bushfire
A COURT has found Brendan Sokaluk found guilty of starting the fatal Churchill bushfire in February 2009.
A ‘hiccup’ for Dalkeith
Gippsland builders Kirway Constructions' shock closure is a "slight hiccup" for the developers of the Dalkeith Heights retirement village project, Grace Bruce and JL Macmillan Memorial Home.
Council gdominatedG by voting bloc
A 'VOTING bloc' of Latrobe City Councillors has been accused of failing to provide "quality representation" for locals on carbon tax issues.
In its response to the Victorian Electoral Submis
Creditor remuneration unlikely
Creditors of ill-fated building company Kirway Constructions are realising there's "slim chance" of remuneration, after the long drawn out liquidation process kicked off at a creditor meeting in
Taking the proactive approach
VICTORIA Police are taking a stand to break the cycle of family violence in the Latrobe Valley, through the setting up of its Family Violence Unit.
The unit, which will go through a 12
Taking a stand against the suffering
DRAPED in black mourning clothes, two animal activists staged a silent protest against primate breeding facilities and experiments on monkeys at Monash University Gippsland last week.
Accused arsonist trial
Accused arsonist trial
JURORS in the trial of the man accused of lighting the fatal Churchill Black Saturday fires have entered a fourth day of deliberations. Brendan James Sokaluk, 42, ple
Celebrating Gippsland’s diversity
GIPPSLAND'S ethnic diversity was celebrated in Immigration Park, Morwell yesterday, with 56 new names unveiled on the Immigration Wall of Recognition.
A crowd of more than 4500 people
Valley base for first regional multicultural youth centre
MORWELL has become the base for regional Victoria's first Centre for Multicultural Youth, in a move to engage with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Gippsland.
The c
Close calls for family
LISA Pavlich was enjoying a rare moment of quiet on Friday morning when her peace was literally shattered by a utility vehicle crashing through the front bedroom window of the new Morwell home s
Alarming employment figures
RECENTLY released unemployment statistics paint a complex picture of Gippsland but show a regional rise in jobless figures of almost two per cent over the past four months.
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Severe thunderstorms awakening heavy rain
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SLOW-MOVING thunderstorms erupted through the Latrobe Valley from the earlier hours of Friday, February 27.
Some locals took to social media to report that...
