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.
Globe trotting for the simple life
They've packed their lives into a suitcase to search for "abundance in simplicity". Matt Patti and Kirsten Barfoot-Patti are flying to Bali today to find a new model of living.
Whittakers Road to close for upgrade
Whittakers Road in Traralgon will close from Monday until the end of June for repairs to the flood-damaged surface.
One of the ‘lucky ones’
"I was nearly another person that was going to be remembered this way," - Darren Van Heurck fights back tears as he recalls his workplace accident.
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.
Leadbeater’s Possum protected
PRESSURE for Australian Paper wood pulp supplier VicForests to end logging in the central highlands has intensified, after the classification of the Leadbeater's Possum as critically endangered by the Federal Government.
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Severe thunderstorms awakening heavy rain
STAFF WRITERS
SLOW-MOVING thunderstorms erupted through the Latrobe Valley from the earlier hours of Friday, February 27.
Some locals took to social media to report that...
