Robotic inspiration
Robots capable of propelling ping pong balls or following fixed race track courses hope to inspire Gippsland high school students into engineering careers.
Valley youth left in limbo
The Gippsland branch of the Youth Connections program will be among those across the country to lose funding at the end of the year.
Cautious welcome for $50m
The construction of two new coal technology projects in 2015 at Yallourn Power Station has fuelled cautious optimism the Latrobe Valley can sustain a niche coal industry.
‘Riotous’ behaviour
A witness in the murder trial of Traralgon man William Scriven has told the Latrobe Valley Supreme Court how he wished he had stayed home the night of his friend's death.
Traralgon ASIC in govt crosshairs
Widespread job security anxiety among Canberra bureaucrats has spread to Traralgon, where the ASIC registry arm has been targeted for privatisation.
Welcome transformation
One of Moe's most infamous eyesores is undergoing a facelift - 12 years after students left the Presentation College campus on Wirraway Street.
Asbestos agency not ‘window dressing’
Gippsland Asbestos-Related Disease Support group has defended the agency tasked with eradicating asbestos after it was criticised by Federal Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.
Stifling budget cuts
Latrobe City Council is reeling from changes to its annual funding announced in the federal budget, which may require council to reassess its own 2014/15 budget.
Mine rehabilitation efforts ‘negligible’
The rehabilitation efforts at the Hazelwood open cut to reduce fire risk has been found negligible in an environment body's submission to the Hazelwood Mine Inquiry.
Vital youth organisation in doubt
Doubt has been cast over the future of an organisation that supports disengaged youth, after funding was ceased in the Federal Government's 2014/15 budget.
Hundreds of jobs to flow from Valley-based coal projects
TWO emerging brown coal technology developers will be granted $50 million in joint government funding today in an effort to diversify Latrobe Valley's future coal industry.
Showing a resilient strength
A former Traralgon woman is facing a life many can't imagine after losing the ability to talk, taste and smell following throat surgery yesterday.
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SUBMISSIONS on the state government's draft renewable energy zones (REZs) and transmission lines closed on Tuesday this week, but VicGrid's chief executive,...
