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Gippsland Lakes laps up funds

The ongoing management of the Gippsland Lakes will receive a $2.5 million top-up in tomorrow's state budget, which will include a revamp of a Ministerial...

Positive response to campaign

Police have received a 263 per cent spike in tip-offs of suspected drug activity in a campaign to combat the manufacture and distribution of crystal methamphetamine or 'ice'.

Blessing back in business

A biker gathering of biblical proportions planned for Mirboo North in October almost went to the wreckers last week, after organisers of the second 'Blessing of the Bikes' temporarily cancelled the event.

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.

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Making public transport safe

  VICTORIA Police conducted a highly visible operation across Latrobe Valley's public transport network on Tuesday, April 28. Officers from Moe, Morwell and Traralgon uniform teamed...