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Four women from Yinnar who dodged emus and kangaroos in a 1996 Holden Commodore on treacherous, rocky roads of the Flinders Ranges later returned with a $38,000 gift for the Latrobe Regional Hospital.

High school students Hannah Lawrence and Lara Redford have seen bullying first hand and are hoping to protect their brothers from it.

The Yinnar husband and wife duo behind Destiny Band Oz had already put their thick jackets on ready to leave the Tasmanian Independent Country Music Awards when they heard their names called.

Churchill and Mirboo North will scrap it out on Saturday in the battle of the big cats as both aim to secure their first Latrobe Valley and District Cricket League win.

High school students at state schools across Gippsland will have access to dedicated mental health professionals at school under a $51.2 million state government program to be rolled out next year.

Fifty per cent of children in Morwell are developmentally vulnerable and any incoming government needed to increase funding to integrated family services, Victoria's peak body for child and family services said.

Disability advocacy groups have welcomed an announcement that a pedestrian refuge island and line markings will be installed at the western end of Commercial Road in Morwell.

Loveable basset hounds Stevie and Lola enjoy "flopping around" and attacking the backyard sprinkler at their Hazelwood North home.

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.