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Member for Morwell Russell Northe is pushing for Latrobe Valley senior citizens to get the same concessions as their fellow metropolitan public transport users.

Safety improvements at Traralgon Plaza have been welcomed by police after a direct link displaying more than 60 CCTV cameras was connected to the police station last week.

Police will be out in force in the next month targeting people leaving football and netball finals across the Latrobe Valley.

New Hazelwood Health Study research stresses the need for schools to keep in mind a back-up teaching site in the event of a major disaster, following reports of increased student and staff anxiety at a Latrobe Valley specialist school which relocated during the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire.

The fact the Friendship Games is an annual event which only keeps getting bigger is a well of emotion to its founder Jos Adrichem.

For a musician based in regional Victoria, Joe Matera has a significantly large European following.

Singer-songwriter Tim Woodz is returning to his old stomping ground in the Latrobe Valley to kick-off an east coast tour to plug a new EP he put out earlier this year.

Reserving a seat on local council for an Indigenous representative should not be ruled out as part of Victorian Aboriginal treaty negotiations, according to Latrobe City councillor Kellie O'Callaghan.

Mirboo North is rallying behind women in drought-affected communities and has put the call out for donations of women's sanitary products and non-perishable food.

Victoria's fittest riders and their elite horses will be aiming to complete a gruelling 100-kilometre ride around the Toongabbie hills on the weekend during the Gippsland endurance championships.

Gippsland logging contractors are fearing for their future in the wake of a media report over the weekend claiming the Andrews Government plans to phase out native logging by 2029.

Police and Victorian government officials were waiting for a logging protestor to down from a tree near Erica on the southern slopes of Mount Baw Baw yesterday.