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Coach service set to remain as it currently is

By STEFAN BRADLEY   IN response to community outcry, the state government has committed to not make changes to the Yarram/Leongatha to Southern Cross V/Line coach...

Confidence growing for new gas field

By PHILIP HOPKINS   LAKES Blue Energy is increasingly confident that within a few months, its 21-year struggle to get a new big onshore gas field...

Incident highlights need for more PSOs

By TOM HAYES   AN alleged attack of a 49-year-old Traralgon woman travelling on V/Line’s Gippsland Line has intensified calls from The Nationals, for the state...

Students buckle down for NAPLAN

STAFF WRITERS   THE annual NAPLAN assessments commenced last week (March 12), and saw almost 1.3 million students take the tests in more than 9400 schools...

Tough bail laws, machete ban introduced

By TOM HAYES   VICTORIA is set to have the "toughest bail laws" in the country, after the Premier Jacinta Allan, Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny, and Minster...

Police Beat: Appeal for assault witnesses

Police Beat with Tom Hayes   Appeal for assault witnesses TRARALGON Police are investigating an assault that is alleged to have occurred at Kmart, Traralgon on Tuesday,...

ICON Morwell to start construction

By PHILIP HOPKINS   CONSTRUCTION of civil works is set to start on the largest industrial and commercial project in Gippsland – the ICON Innovation Park...

MICA paramedics deployed in Morwell

STAFF WRITERS   THE largest-ever intake into Ambulance Victoria's Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) Bridging Program has hit the road. New MICAs are delivering more specialised, lifesaving...

Historic Walhalla makes its move

By KATRINA BRANDON   A GOLDEN destiny is set for Victoria's World Heritage Bid nomination, with Walhalla Goldfields one of many locations included in the Tentative...

Reports suggest targets likely to miss

By PHILIP HOPKINS   THE state government is likely to miss targets to retire the Latrobe Valley's brown coal power stations, and renewable energy will fall...

‘Bridging the Gap’ for apprentices

By KATRINA BRANDON   MAKING sure that apprentices are ready for the workforce, Tequa has created a ‘Bridge the Gap’ program to help ease the transition. Last...

Port of Hastings wind project in limbo

By PHILIP HOPKINS   THE proposed windfarms off the Gippsland coast, which have an estimated construction cost of $100 billion to produce 25,000 megawatts of electricity...

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Machete ban sweeps Victoria

STAFFWRITERS   THE state government has used extraordinary powers to totally ban the sale of machetes. Machete sale bans came into effect Wednesday, May 28. Premier Jacinta Allan...