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Brigade bin decision reversed

By STEFAN BRADLEY   THE CFA has reversed a decision to remove sanitary bins from a number of Victorian fire brigades, seemingly to cut costs, but...

Education crisis

STAFF WRITERS   AUSTRALIA'S teacher shortage crisis is deepening, with no immediate solutions on offer, according to Shadow Minister for Education, Sarah Henderson. Ms Henderson said Education...

Gridlock over transmission lines

By PHILIP HOPKINS   CONFUSION reigns among farmers and other landowners in southern Gippsland as the state government's new kid on the block, VicGrid, has pushed...

Premier Allan tours the storm path

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC   FRIGHTENING and ferocious were the words Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan used when describing the impact of the storm that ripped through Mirboo...

A town left to pick up the pieces

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC   AS the angry clouds rolled in one afternoon, no one in Mirboo North could have imagined the amount of chaos that was...

Community looking for answers

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC   IN stark contrast to the joyous occasion that saw 30,000 people attend the Italian festival held in Mirboo North a few days...

Carnage with cyclone-like storm

By LIAM DURKIN, ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC, KATRINA BRANDON and ERIKA ALLEN   Carnage with cyclone-like storm IT happened in an instant. Just five minutes is all it took to...

Latrobe Youth Space secures some time

By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC   LATROBE Youth Space has secured $250,000 in state government funding to continue its influential community work for another six months. The board of...

OHS sentencing practices under review

By TOM HAYES   A NEW consultation paper has been released by the Sentencing Advisory Council (SAC), detailing and examining sentencing practices for occupational health and...

Life After Coal

STAFF WRITERS   THE team at Life After Coal is hosting a community day at Kernot Hall this Saturday (February 17) to reflect on post-coal progress...

Grabbing the bull by the horns

By TOM HAYES   A SMALL collection of dairy farmers from Gippsland underwent a GippsDairy workshop on Tuesday, February 6. About 15 farmers from the region came...

Latrobe Valley’s future in hydrogen

By PHILIP HOPKINS   HYDROGEN and the potential of Gippsland and its industries to play a role in the hydrogen technologies seen as crucial for the...

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Bowlers warm up for pennant

BOWLS STREZLECKI NORTH BY MICHAEL HOLROYD   STREZLECKI Bowls Region opened its season last Saturday with the Strzelecki North playing area conducting the McGilton and Barry Shields for...