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STUFFING your face full of local veggies is the promise of a new home grown initiative.

THE Environment Protection Authority has confirmed it will proceed with a full works approval process for a turbine replacement project at Loy Yang B.

IT's been said the smell emanating from the Australian Paper Maryvale Mill could "cut the air with a knife". Although the rotten egg-like perfume is anecdotally infrequent, the Latrobe Valley's largest employer has sought to maintain a five kilometre development buffer around the Maryvale site.

Brendan Ancilleri is a Latrobe Valley gay man who would one day like the opportunity to marry, but he says a plebiscite is not the way to go about achieving marriage equality.

THE black dog of depression, drug addiction, sexual abuse and the impact of war on civilians. These four themes could scarcely be further removed from Traralgon photographer John Ansell's day-to-day subject matter, but they're the cornerstones of his latest award-winning portfolio.

A group of people with disabilities have successfully campaigned for the construction of a pedestrian refuge at a lethal crossing in Moe.

An unoccupied house in Keith Avenue, Moe was destroyed by fire about 10.30pm, Saturday, 10 September.

LATROBE Valley fuel prices are set to come under scrutiny as part of a state-wide parliamentary inquiry into pricing discrepancies.

Willow Grove resident David Lyons has declared his candidacy for East Ward in the 2016 Baw Baw Shire Council elections.

A LOCAL radio announcer who has spent more than 35 years living, working and volunteering in the Latrobe Valley has announced he will stand for council.

ARTIST Hayden Jackson considers what it is to be a man when tilting and manipulating litres of acrylic paint on his epic canvases.

At Monday's ordinary meeting, Latrobe City councillors voted to keep Morwell's pop-up park open until the end of the summer period to "engage public opinion" over the warmer months.