Private rental market out of reach for income support recipients: Anglicare report
Single people living on Newstart or Youth Allowance in the Latrobe Valley and Baw Baw regions have been effectively priced out of the private rental market, an Anglicare Victoria report has found.
Lights out for festival?
Organisers of the annual Walhalla Vinter Ljusfest are waiting anxiously to find out whether the August event has the funding it needs to go ahead.
Breaking the ice
Twenty-seven year-old Kallym has not used crystal methamphetamine for more than a year, after five years of recreational drug use and two years of ice addiction.
Change of scenery
Upper house Labor member for Eastern Victoria Harriet Shing plans to shift her electoral office from Warragul to the Latrobe Valley in the next few months.
Seriously sick kids will get care: LRH
Latrobe Regional Hospital says children with serious health conditions will continue to receive immediate care
Sky’s the limit
Hordes of bodies may not be the only thing plummeting through the sky next month, when a Churchill couple join an attempt to topple an Australian skydiving record in the United States.
Going digital
The police scanners of "eavesdropping" community members will be silenced in 2017, if the impending state budget allows it.
New life for tired Churchill underpass
An art mural intended to ward off graffiti at a Churchill pedestrian underpass has been unveiled to the local and artistic community.
Next stop on the lobby loop
Government roles have reversed in the perpetual push for meaningful upgrades to the Gippsland rail line, which continues to be plagued with punctuality issues and capacity problems.
Community thanked
Traralgon police are thanking residents who assisted in locating an offender last week.
A recycled reality
One of the largest industrial expansions in Latrobe Valley's recent history has been welcomed to the manufacturing landscape, with the completion of the $90 million recycling facility at Maryvale Mill.
All hands on deck
YALLOURN Power Station is in the midst of a major outage, spruiking the installation of a 156-tonne Japanese steel turbine to increase generation.
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Nothing but roses for the Blues
FOOTBALL
NORTH GIPPSLAND
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
RIGHT when it seemed as though the ladder had begun to shape itself accordingly in North Gippsland, here came Round 14.
While...
