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People impacted by past and recent bushfires are being urged to access a free counselling service at Latrobe Community Health Service.

A meeting will be held in Trafalgar on Monday evening to gauge the community's need for a Neighbourhood Watch program.

A Latrobe City report detailing the break-up of funding between Latrobe's major towns is a waste of council resources, Latrobe City central ward councillor Alan McFarlane said.

An elderly man was flown to The Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition after he was struck by a train near Moe station at about 2.30pm on Tuesday.

Federation University academic Dr Antoinette Holm is the latest contender to throw her hat in the ring for seat of Gippsland in the upcoming federal election as the endorsed Labor candidate.

Latrobe Valley local Casey Bonacci had to move from the area to kickstart a career in event management. However, with some experience under her belt and some business mentoring, Ms Bonacci's "very new" event management business will be set to thrive in Gippsland's "growing" events industry

Having lived with chronic pain for a number of years, Geraldine McClure believes the "single most effective thing" she did to help in her recovery was to educate herself about pain.

An excavator operator who worked on the Hazelwood mine fire has detailed the "excruciating" pain he lives with on a daily basis since developing two life-threatening conditions months after the fire was extinguished, the Latrobe Valley Magistrates' Court has heard.

As a child, Newborough balladeer and country music singer Evan Platschinda could barely say 'g'day mate', but more than six decades later he is regularly recognised for his performing and songwriting.

A Latrobe Valley man who lives with a pacemaker understands how mental illness can go hand-in-hand with heart problems.

Nearly 600 people were welcomed at the Light of Hidayah mosque in Morwell two days after an horrific attack on Muslims in New Zealand.

Traralgon mum Kathleen Simpkins had a very limited understanding of Down syndrome until she had her second child, Elva, four years ago.