Collective safety
By KATRINA BRANDON
THIS Easter, Victoria Police are reminding drivers that safety is everyone's responsibility.
Local authorities will be out during the holiday period with a...
Police Beat: Suspected Moe stabbing
Police Beat with Tom Hayes
Suspected Moe stabbing
HOMICIDE Squad detectives are investigated the discovery of a deceased man, found in Moe on Monday, April 7.
Emergency...
Jones resentenced after appeal granted
By TOM HAYES
DENNIS Jones' appeal has been granted, following his sentencing for an October 2021 incident at Dennis Jones Engineering which left an apprentice...
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...
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Test results of beef wellington lunch revealed: Patterson trial
By TOM HAYES and STEFAN BRADLEY
RESULTS of toxin tests were revealed and explained to the court during Erin Patterson's Supreme Court trial on Friday,...
