Fire-affected livestock find place to stay in Gippsland
By LIAM DURKIN
COUNTRY folk doing what they do best.
Farmers across the region have extended the olive branch to those up north affected by bushfires.
With...
Community rallies: Yinnar business left to pick up the pieces
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT AND KATRINA BRANDON
A SHINING light of Yinnar is being threatened with permanent closure under its current owners after the ATM ram raid...
Hazelwood home of AI? $10 billion deal on the table
By LIAM DURKIN
A MEGA-DEAL that will see a $10 billion data centre built near the former Hazelwood power station site is being proposed.
Singapore-based Keppel...
Single-vehicle crash on Princes Freeway
A Newborough woman was taken to hospital after a single-vehicle crash on the Princes Freeway near the John Field–Princes on-ramp at Hernes Oak about...
Chester ‘transparent’ about travel claim
By DAVID BRAITHWAITE
MEMBER for Gippsland Darren Chester is one of more than 50 federal MPs named in a newspaper report as using taxpayer-funded travel...
Celebrating women in dairy
By KATRINA BRANDON
INDIVIDUAL and collective innovation is spread throughout Gippsland.
At the 2025 Women in Dairy Discussion Group (WID) end-of-year luncheon, about 200 people gathered...
Bondi Royal Commission has been called
PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese finally yielded to public pressure, announcing a Federal Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack.
The Prime Minister had come under...
Investment needed now, not in 20 years
CLAIMS from the Allan Labor government that it's "supporting the Latrobe Valley" by reinvesting revenue from bulk water entitlements when rehabilitation of the Loy...
Learning the language
By PEACE IJIYERA
FOR many Yoruba Nigerian youths born and raised in the diaspora, it can be difficult to connect with their roots.
The Yoruba Language...
Fire fury: Victoria declared a State of Disaster
By KATRINA BRANDON
LATROBE Valley residents braved extreme temperatures last week, as much of the state battled horrendous bushfires.
Temperatures climbed into the 40s last Wednesday,...
Total Fire Ban declared for all of Victoria
A Total Fire Ban (TFB) has been declared for whole state of Victoria tomorrow, Saturday 10 January 2026.
Tomorrow's conditions will be cooler than today,...
Power outages possible ahead of statewide Total Fire Ban
FRIDAY, January 9 is a day of extreme risk in Victoria, with fires already burning, extreme weather forecast and a catastrophic fire danger rating...
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Melbourne makes Opals cut
BASKETBALL
FIBA
BY BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
SEVEN cuts were made for the Australian Opals, with Traralgon's Jade Melbourne holding her spot.
The duel WNBL and WNBA player will don...
