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Displeasure as Endeavour becomes un-staffed

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC IF you frequently drive into Traralgon on the Princes Highway, chances are you've stopped at the Endeavour (formally BP) petrol station. You fill...

Council reform

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC AND STEFAN BRADLEY COUNCILORS are on notice. The state government is set to introduce new legislation to improve the performance and accountability of...

EnergyAustralia face the courts

ENERGYAUSTRALIA Yallourn have fronted five charges for failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment. EnergyAustralia Yallourn was charged after a fire broke out...

Police Beat: Five arrested following Moe shooting

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC   FIVE ARRESTED FOLLOWING MOE SHOOTING Armed Crime squad detectives are investigating a shooting in Moe on Monday night (November, 20). Officers have been told...

Outage causes grief for local businesses

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC 'FRUSTRATED' couldn't adequately describe the way Latrobe Valley small business owners felt amid the national Optus network outage. More than 10 million Optus...

Havoc as Optus customers left stranded

By STEFAN BRADLEY BUSINESSES that don’t rely on the Optus network could largely weather the storm after the company’s telecommunications services went down on Wednesday,...

The importance of being heard

When, in 1897, Guglielmo Marconi successfully sent the world’s first wireless radio message across open water, his primary interest had been in enabling contact...

Public intoxication reforms in place

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC THE state government is using a health-based response to combat public drunkenness, with a sobering up centre set for the Latrobe Valley....

The lifelong fight for legitimacy

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC A LOCAL Palestinian perspective on an international conflict. “We are human”, seems like an odd statement to share as everyone indeed shares this...

Enshrining the SEC in the Constitution

THE state government plans to enshrine the State Electricity Commission (SEC) in Victoria's Constitution. Minister for the State Electricity Commission, Lily D'Ambrosio, said the move...

New guard

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC LATROBE City Council has elected councillor Darren Howe as Mayor for the next year, while Cr Tracie Lund was elected the new...

Newborough’s ties to Aussie war hero

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC A TALE that makes its way across borders, centuries, generations and wars. A story of loss and sacrifice - the story of...

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Deja vu for Morwell East, denied by North Gippsland

FOOTBALL/NETBALL By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT   IN Morwell East Football-Netball Club’s latest attempt to join North Gippsland Football-Netball League from Mid Gippsland FNL, the Hawks have again failed...