AusNet slapped with $200,000 fine
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AUSNET Services has been ordered to pay $200,000 for installing an uninsulated high-voltage powerline in one of the state's highest bushfire risk areas....
Setka steps down from union
By LIAM DURKIN
CONTROVERSIAL Victorian CFMEU Secretary, John Setka resigned last week.
Mr Setka's resignation was effective immediately from last Friday.
The Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees...
Call for revamp of bushfire policy
By PHILIP HOPKINS
A LEADING forestry expert has strongly criticised opponents of prescribed burning in forests and has urged a radical new approach combining traditional...
Latrobe Valley to host New Energy Conference
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TICKETS for Australia’s most extensive regionally-led energy conference are currently on sale.
The three-day event will focus on local actions being undertaken with global...
Ten cents per can back into the Valley
By KATRINA BRANDON
GIPPSLAND is once again leading the way, with more than 47 million containers returned within Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme since November 1...
Tradie to compete against world’s best
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
MOE apprentice, Sebastian Battista will be heading over to Lyon, France after being selected for the Skillaroos training squad to represent Australia...
Plea for public toilets in Churchill
By ERIKA ALLEN
ANY of the three sites presented as options for where Latrobe City Council builds a permanent public toilet can be built in...
Old Melbourne Road reopens
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LATROBE City Council's civil contractor, Ace Earthmoving, has completed the reconstruction of 1.5 kilometres of Old Melbourne Road, starting at Alexanders Road roundabout...
Fighting job fatigue
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT and STEFAN BRADLEY
LOCAL paramedics and union members last Thursday, tired and angry, protested outside the Morwell office of state government frontbencher...
Morwell Foodbank officially open
By KATRINA BRANDON
FOODBANK Victoria’s Morwell Community Food Centre officially opened last week.
The opening welcomed Minister for Carers and Volunteers Ros Spence, Member for Eastern...
‘An offer you can’t refuse’ – a fare from Moe’s taxis
MOE Taxis has been a constant in the Moe/Newborough area as a reliable service of local drivers dating back to the middle of last...
Fanciful facility
By LIAM DURKIN
PEOPLE might want to think again when they claim "Traralgon gets everything".
More than three years on from the devastating floods that left...
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Three-way race out North
NETBALL
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
ROUND 11 across local leagues held great significance in netball, not just for the results themselves on the court, but what it...
