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Springtime renewal

Morwell will come alive with a three-day spring festival this month celebrating all things sustainable.

Brown coal’s future: Should it continue?

Latrobe Valley Express journalist FARRAH PLUMMER held a forum to discuss one of the most topical issues in the Latrobe Valley: the future of the region's brown coal resource.

Brown coal’s future: Twenty years of coal at least

Richard Elkington, chair of Regional Development Gippsland and a member of the Clean Coal Victoria Advisory Committee says the brown coal industry as it stands has another 20 years of life.

Brown coal’s future: Challenges await the industry

Member for Morwell Russell Northe has spoken of the reliability of brown coal with a need to meet peak-hour electricity demand.

Man in induced coma following crash near Walhalla

A 26 year-old motorbike rider was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in an induced coma after colliding with a four wheel-drive near Walhalla on Sunday.

Monash Uni awarded contract for Hazelwood mine fire long-term health study

Monash University has announced it has been contracted by the Victorian Department of Health to undertake the government's study into the long-term health effects of the Hazelwood mine fire on Morwell residents.

Councillor’s high ambitions

Latrobe City councillor Christine Sindt has announced her intention to run for an upper house seat in the Eastern Victoria Region in the upcoming state election.

The dawn of the dead

What began as a humble haunted house in Rosedale resident David Kupisiewicz's home and shed for his homesick California-native children, has grown into a Halloween nightmare.

‘Threat to Australia’

New candidate for Morwell claims the acceptance of non-Christian immigrants into Australia has caused a threat to the nation.

Newborough training centre builds on success

Job-seekers participating in a building course newly offered in Newborough had a chance to show off all they had achieved at the workshop's official opening on Thursday.

Dreams come true

With the first round of Big Red Kidney Bus patients hooked up and ready for holidays, patients from across Australia are living the legacy Latrobe Valley dialysis patients left behind.

A gift worth cherishing?

Coal extracted from the depths of the Hazelwood mine has been used to create sculptures and charcoal drawings in an exhibition that questions our dualistic relationship to the resource.

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