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Left to fend for himself

A Koornalla man attempting to rebuild after the Black Saturday bushfires, targeted by serial thefts on his property, has accused the Traralgon police of ignoring his plight.

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.

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.

Federal Budget 2014: Dire prediction for the unemployed

A Latrobe Valley employment and learning agency has labelled the Federal Government's changes to the dole a "disastrous way to send people down a spiral to poverty".

Federal Budget 2014: How does the budget affect you?

A quick overview of how the 2014 Federal Budget may affect you.

Federal Budget 2014: Can the Valley lift its budget burden?

The Federal Government's budget plan to decrease the burden on the welfare system could be counter productive in the Latrobe Valley, Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has warned, without an effective regional development program.

Federal Budget 2014: Counting the cost of education

THE Gippsland Australian Education Union fears deregulation in higher education announced in the 2014/15 Federal Budget will cause a fee increase "blow out" at private providers as seen in the TAFE sector.

Bloody end

The first three days of the murder trial of Traralgon man William Scriven has heard from the Thexton Street neighbours with whom he had an altercation the evening before 32 year-old Wayne Glenn Bayley's death.

Nowhere to go

Last week the Gina family were excitedly preparing to move into their new Churchill home. This week they have no idea where they are going to sleep.

Eye for design

With a passion for men's fashion, a Trafalgar designer saw an absence in the market for men's jewellery when he was in high school and is still capitalising on it 12 years later.

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