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Valley rallies for Good Friday Appeal

Old Gippstown's annual Easter Fair is running for its third year on Saturday, 15 April to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal.

Clock ticking on old station

The liquidator for Energy Brix Australia hopes a heritage assessment of the defunct Morwell briquette factory and power station is conducted as swiftly as possible.

Hazy skies over Gippsland

Poor air quality warnings were issued last week across the Latrobe Valley ahead of what is about to become one of the busiest periods of the year for local firies.

From trash to treasure

The Latrobe Valley is being considered as the potential future site of a $30 million facility which takes waste and converts it into high-end products.

Feasibility study needed

Australian Paper believes it will take about two to three years to carry out feasibility research into its plans to establish a bio-manufacturing facility at its Maryvale Mill.

Anderson apologises

A former Latrobe Regional Hospital director has apologised for a string of offensive and sexist comments made on social media site Twitter, dating back as early as 2011.

Happy bike trails

For more than 20 years cyclists and walkers have lobbied for a shared bike path between Morwell and Traralgon.

Hazelwood helmets get new home

As Hazelwood workers finished their final shifts last week they hung their helmets outside the gates as a tribute to the work they had done powering the state for 52 years.

Bryan clocks off after decades behind the lens

When Bryan Petts-Jones saw the time exposure of lights on vehicles in a magazine while on a trip to Sydney, it was enough to prompt him to buy a camera there and then.

Thorpdale mourns ‘icon’

The owner of Thorpdale's Traveller's Rest Hotel is being remembered as a "community man" after he was killed in a blaze which destroyed the upper storey of the pub on Tuesday.

Charges laid over thefts

A 15 year-old Sale girl and an 18 year-old Morwell woman have been arrested and charged in relation to a series of thefts from cars and burglaries from sheds.

They’ll be watching you

Latrobe's new top traffic cop says police will be out in force this month across the region during the public holiday periods.

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