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Lazy landowners issued letters

Fourteen sites across the Latrobe Valley have become the first targets of Latrobe City Council's beefed-up dilapidated building law designed to crack down on eyesores.

Making ground on dilapidated sites

A vacant Moe site that's been a source of frustration for the community and local council has been cleaned up.

Gippsland pastor fears ‘de-Christianisation’

Latrobe Valley students will only have access to religious education outside of school hours next year, when the State Government introduces a respectful relationships program.

Northe shrugs off Labor’s regional push

Nationals Member for Morwell Russell Northe says he is not concerned about an apparent branding strategy by Labor to reclaim conservative country seats including Morwell.

Local anti-drug campaign gets national nod

The success of the Moe 'Dob in a Dealer' campaign could be linked to the announcement of a national hotline to tackle ice.

Plastic bag of horror

When Traralgon woman Julie Brown left for work on Saturday morning, her eye was caught by a grey plastic bag on the side of the road near her home.

Planning fiasco rectified

A murky cloud of planning bureaucracy has cleared from Morwell's western skies, which for years has hamstrung the town's expansion towards the Yallourn open cut.

Buffer problem raised in State Parliament

Community concerns about a surprise recommendation by a State Government planning panel to double the buffer zone around the Loy Yang mine have been amplified in Parliament.

Body found in Morwell

Latrobe Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating following the discovery of a body at a property in Morwell on Tuesday night.

Braving the stage en masse

The first performance for any young musician, singer or dancer is enough to make the heart pound, the hands shake and the body temperature rise.

Love won’t tear us apart

Grassroots National Party members have affirmed their confidence in Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester, convincingly voting down a motion to dis-endorse him as the party's candidate in the next election.

Judge jails child molester

A substitute teacher's relentless sexual molestation of a former Liddiard Road student has attracted a six-and-half-year minimum jail term.

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