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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.

LRH caught in govt crossfire

Latrobe Regional Hospital would lose more than $249 million in funding over 10 years as a result of Federal Government funding cuts to health, the State Government said last week.

Water given ‘all clear’

Gippsland Water lifted the boil water alert for Morwell residents on Friday following independent water quality test results.

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.

Send complaints here

The Victorian Ombudsman visited Gippsland last week in a bid to increase awareness of her role as a complaints investigator.

Valley ‘coping’ with increase

Latrobe Valley support services believe local renters are doing 'okay', despite an increase in home rental prices over the past five years.

Emissions policy disappoints

ENVIRONMENTAL commentators have maintained their disappointment in the Emissions Reduction Fund, with Latrobe Valley power stations unlikely to participate in the scheme.

Anzac Day: Churchill

Hundreds gathered at Churchill's civic space for the 50 year-old community's first ever Anzac service.

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