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More housing needed

State member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath has stressed the need for more public housing in Gippsland following a report which revealed an increase in demand around the state.

Beautifully grotesque art challenges with texture

Twenty-three-year-old Morwell artist Christopher Miller has used the role reversal of the beautiful and the grotesque to dominate his first solo exhibition.

Gaudy gourd band at Tyers

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from an African shop.

Dry mine a fire risk

A "whopping great hole" is not an acceptable option for the Hazelwood mine void but a lake was a reasonable outcome, an RMIT engineering expert says.

Gippsland women lack abortion access

A Gippsland Women's Health study has revealed women in Gippsland have limited access to abortion methods.

Ramp hopes dashed

Latrobe Valley disability advocate Phillip Chalker is calling on the National Disability Insurance Scheme to pick up its game after he was incorrectly led to believe his request for an entry ramp had been granted.

Aquatic centre works won’t affect summer swimming

Construction and preliminary site works of the Traralgon Pool will likely begin in March 2019, Latrobe City Council has announced.

Sacred Heart officially opens new buildings

Sacred Heart Primary School officially opened its newly-renovated and refurbished school buildings last week to coincide with the Feast of the Sacred Heart.

Artefacts salvaged on Traralgon site

Local Indigenous history has been unearthed in Traralgon as part of Gippsland Water works in which stone artefacts were uncovered on the planned site of a sewage pipe.

Magpies decide to nest with TDCA

Barry Little has resigned as president of the Glengarry Cricket Club after the club voted at a special general meeting last week to remain with the Traralgon and District Cricket Association.

Benchmark of success

Bouncing around on a trampoline with reckless abandon is part and parcel of many childhoods but for Aaron Benc it's a much more refined art.

The fall and rise of Darren Chester

Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has spoken out about a tumultuous period in his career which began with his dismissal from the ministry just before Christmas and his reappointment following Barnaby Joyce's resignation.

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