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Federation is Rika’s pick

Mature age student, Rika Delaney has accepted an offer from Federation University - and is looking forward to being among the first to graduate from the new Gippsland institution.

FedUni preference increase

The former Monash University Churchill campus is poised for an increase in enrolments for 2014 as the newly formed Federation University.

Emergency averted

The Westbury bushfire was declared safe yesterday after growing to 166 hectares since Thursday.

‘Optimistic’ future for community health

A MEETING with Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss this week has left the Latrobe Valley’s community health provider “optimistic” about securing funding to establish a university training clinic and dental prosthetic lab at Churchill.

Light up, stand out

Gippsland truck drivers are turning on their lights during daylight hours for the next 10 weeks in a campaign to reduce collisions.

Steps to weed out mobile blackspots

Gippslanders are being asked to provide information about their mobile phone coverage, with some communities experiencing service "black spots".

Woman assaulted in Traralgon

POLICE NEWS: A fight between dogs at Newman Park escalated into two unknown men assaulting a woman on Sunday afternoon.

Abandoned house deliberately lit

A fire is believed to have been deliberately lit in an abandoned building adjacent to Traralgon's Manny's Market on Tuesday night.

Heat threatens power supply 

Up to 100,000 homes and commercial properties in Victoria could be without electricity, as a result of the extreme heat 

CRS to close Morwell branch

One of the Latrobe Valley's leading providers of employment services for around 100 people with a disability will close its doors in March.

Melting motorways 

Roads across the Latrobe Valley have been adversely affected by hot weather.

No plans to retire: Hall

Long-standing Gippsland MP Peter Hall has refuted claims he will not recontest his seat at the November election.

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