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Assaults drop, sex crimes up in Latrobe

Sexual offences, robberies and thefts in Latrobe have significantly increased in the past year, new crime data reveals.

Market empowerment

'Make, bake and grow' is the theme of a new monthly community market coming to Moe at the High Street Community Hub.

Rock-throwing incident dents family’s day

There are calls for a protective fence to be installed on the Princes Freeway pedestrian bridge overpass at Moe after a car was hit by a rock thrown from the bridge earlier this month.

Story to spread across Gippsland

United Muslim Sisters of Latrobe Valley are open to embedding their new cultural awareness program in English curriculums throughout Gippsland after a successful pilot at Trafalgar High School.

Get into the right driving habit

Are you teaching your kids bad driving habits?

Barra could still thrive after closure

Hopes of the Latrobe Valley becoming a fishing hotspot for barramundi will not be lost with the closure of Hazelwood power station.

Biggest yet?

A Cranbourne angler has caught what is believed to be the biggest barramundi yet, to be reeled in from the Hazelwood Pondage.

Years of planning

It will be at least three years until demolition work begins at Hazelwood power station, plant owner ENGIE revealed at a community meeting held last week.

CPSU industrial action intensifies

Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support services experienced some disruptions nationwide on Friday as the union engaged in further industrial action.

Silver bullet buyer ‘not that simple’

Keeping Hazelwood open would require a potential buyer to spend "many, many hundreds of millions of dollars" on the plant and "many hundreds of millions" again upgrading the mine, a community forum has heard.

Walk down memory lane

From the very foundation of Traralgon to the formation of the Traralgon Band in 1881, royal visit in 1954 and more, the history of the 3844 postcode has a new home.

Shopfront scheme could be key to town renewal

As the chorus of empty shopfronts in Morwell grows ever louder the region is singing out for a solution to its business bugaboo.

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