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Give them a ‘fur’ go

Two litters of kittens and their frightened mothers were recently dumped outside the gates of Latrobe City Pound.

SES truck home at last

THE almost decade-long campaign to find a permanent home for its life-saving Latrobe Valley emergency vehicles has come to an end for the Morwell State Emergency Service.

Mends for coastal canines 

A TIME amendment to new dog-walking restrictions at Inverloch beaches has done little to appease residents and tourists who opposed the new rules.

Moe bank hold-up adjourned in Valley court

The man charged with robbing Moe's Westpac bank on 23 September will appear in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court on 9 January.

Police welcome pub bans

AN automatic two-year ban from licensed premises for displays of violent drunken behaviour will strengthen local liquor accords.

Life after cancer

When Hannah O'Loughlin was hit with a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis at just 25 years old, she was working as a beauty therapist at a Traralgon pharmacy, now she is following her dream career.

Mind your post-pub Ps and Qs

Visitors to Traralgon's bar and nightclub district now have constant reminders they're being watched, following the installation signs across the central business district.

Police news

Police yesterday afternoon charged a 33 year-old Morwell woman in relation to a string of burglaries in Hazelwood North.

Fund lures R&D hopefuls

Emerging coal technology developers have collectively fronted more than $8 million in an attempt to secure their share of $3.5 million research and funding grant through Brown Coal Innovation Australia.

Coal remains locked, for now

The State Government remains undecided on whether it will push ahead with plans to further unlock Latrobe Valley brown coal reserves for new coal projects.

Stacks of cash en route

The public will have to wait until 2014 to learn which alternative brown coal companies have successfully secured a share of $90 million in government money, designed to help fund demonstration plants in the Latrobe Valley.

Park improvement

Trafalgar's McGregor Park will be revitalised thanks to $400,000 in funding from the State Government and Baw Baw Shire.

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