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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...

Timber turning the circular economy

PHILIP HOPKINS     ‘FROM paddock to plate’, a key agriculture policy goal, does not even begin to describe the ground-breaking private forestry business that is being...

Gippsland firewood thieves fined

TWO Gippsland men who travelled almost 300 kilometres to illegally cut down trees in a state forest near Bendigo have each been fined $11,000. The...

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Cricket, days to savour

CRICKET CLV By LIAM DURKIN   WHY do we do it? The sport that makes everyone question their life choices each and every Saturday for six months of the...