Triple treat for Traralgon truckers
In horse racing, the Melbourne Cup is the pinnacle of the sport. In off-road rock crawling, it's the Tough Dog Tuff Truck Challenge.
Light horse honoured
A champion show horse and his rider helped commemorate their fallen equine comrades from the Australian Light Horse Brigade at the Churchill Anzac service.
Anzac Day around the district
Morwell RSL president Bruce Jeffrey led the dawn service at the intersection of Elgin and Tarwin streets, where about 500 people circled the cenotaph to remember the fallen.
Veteran gives back
For Charlie Richards, who attended the dawn service at Moe, volunteering as a welfare officer with the Moe and District Veterans' Support Service Centre is an opportunity to give back.
Gippsland Tech School open for business
Robots and virtual reality are just some of the new technologies available to students from eight schools across the region at the newly-opened Gippsland Tech School.
‘All their bombs landed in the water’
Something that will never leave Morwell 92-year-old Edmund 'Ted' Dent's mind was a moment of strange coincidence as bombs landed around him near the shores of a Borneo seaport city.
Walhalla features in Cinnamon’s spooky tale
Dandenong Ranges author and former secondary teacher Pauline Hosking looked to Gippsland when she decided on an eerie setting for the next in her Cinnamon Stevens children's fiction series.
Sawmills put pressure on government over jobs
Six Gippsland sawmills have renewed pressure on the Victorian government, urging Premier Daniel Andrews in an open letter to save jobs, protect regional communities and return confidence to the timber industry.
Soup van services extended
St Vincent de Paul is rolling out a soup van in Traralgon and Morwell after successfully servicing homeless people in Moe for many years.
Sick man calls for ban on parked cars
Moe resident Kevin Oakley is calling on Latrobe City to put 'no parking' signs and markings in front of the house opposite his so he can exit his driveway and be transported to hospital quickly when his serious health issue flares up.
Honour, sacrifice remembered
The mood was sombre across the Latrobe Valley yesterday as thousands attended dawn and morning services to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War I.
Gibson ‘urns’ Silver Ashes call-up to take on Poms
Cricket may have lost some of the sheen from its mantle as the gentleman’s game in recent times, but for Ian Gibson the niceties have always been overrated.



















