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Victims of institutional abuse have spoken out following Prime Minister Scott Morrison's National Apology to victims and survivors who were sexually abused as children.

A person who stole a ute and more than $4000 worth of tools from a car park at Mid Valley Shopping Centre last month is yet to be found.

The local community is being invited to help people ditch cigarettes in the Latrobe Valley at a workshop to tackle the region's high smoking rates.

South Gippsland Shire councillor-elect Rosemary Cousin is hopeful she can work positively with her new colleagues despite allegations of bullying and harassment and the resignation of two councillors.

A Coalition government would attempt to tackle a regional skills shortage by reinvigorating the Gippsland Tertiary Education Council which was scrapped in 2014.

Loy Yang A owner AGL has moved to reassure the community that it has no plans to close following comments to investors which suggested the plant could close early if power markets did not warrant major expenditure to keep it going until 2048.

You don't have to be a mental health professional to ask a loved one if they are ok. This is the message Friends of Lifeline, a group of passionate volunteers and mental health advocates, have been advocating through the Mind the Valley project, a series of sessions with more than 200 community members discussing how to have conversations with friends and families around mental health and wellbeing.

Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily D'Ambrosio was in Traralgon last Tuesday to inspect St Paul's Anglican Grammar School's energy efficiency efforts.

A walk-in family violence services hub, expected to open in Morwell in December, has been designed with advice from family violence survivors to be a welcoming and safe space.

Families struggling to find support when their children are experiencing emotional and mental health challenges can now access child psychologists via an online portal that was launched in Gippsland last week.

Too much time spent in front of screens and poor sleep are some main reasons for high levels of psychological distress in young Australians, says headspace Morwell centre manager Justin Van Rossen.

Sydneysider Jordan Thompson proved his first-round match could wait for the second day of play at the Traralgon Challenger after defeating Italian Alessando Petrone in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1.