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Dwellings collapse

A Morwell-based company that offered custom-designed homes to "capture the essence of Australian living" has gone into administration.

Firefighters to vote on EBA

The Country Fire Authority's controversial enterprise bargaining agreement will be put to a vote of career firefighters after a lengthy legal dispute.

A wage rate plummet?

A letter circulated to Loy Yang employees has revealed wage drops of up to 65 per cent would occur if owner AGL successfully terminated the station and mine's Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.

Hobson Park ‘ahead of its time’

It could be said the opening of Hobson Park hospital in 1963 revolutionised psychiatric care in Gippsland.

From school garden to plate

Chow mein was on the lunch menu for year 4/3M students at St Kieran's Catholic Primary School in Moe who cooked up a healthy lunch using produce from their school kitchen garden.

The toy drive motors on

The Gippsland Motorcyclists Toy Run may be no more, but hundreds of toys will still be delivered to local children in need.

Join the assembly

The call is out for locals wanting to help shape the region's future as part of the Latrobe Health Assembly.

Bird-brained legislation slammed

Agriculture Minister Jaala Pulford is standing by the State Government's proposed changes to Victoria's rule book on keeping, selling and breeding domestic animals.

Identity crisis for Koko the Clown

"How does a clown show ID?" That is the question Latrobe Valley's Koko the Clown is grappling with after Facebook suspended his account last week.

Strong words on the line

Tops with inspiring words, impassioned messages and emotional pictures covered part of Mid Valley Shopping Centre on Wednesday, 19 October.

This time it’s personal

When this year's Latrobe Valley Relay for Life brought the total raised in the event's 15-year history to $1 million Thorpdale's Tracey Chambers was on stage to mark the occasion.

An education evolution

Swinburne Online is offering Latrobe Valley residents a taste of distance education before committing to university.

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