Home News Page 882

News

Operation Christmas appeal

Volunteers from the ItalianAustralian Club have helped launch the 2013 Latrobe Regional Hospital Christmas Appeal.

Duplication underway

Duplication of the Princes Highway between Traralgon and Sale is a step closer after the first sod was turned at the Nambrok Road section of the project yesterday.

Strategies to improve tourism

INVESTMENT into Gippsland's national parks such as the Tarra Bulga tree-top walk, the coastal wilderness walk and the Gippsland Lakes have been listed among actions to stimulate Gippsland tourism.

Parents learn too

ABORIGINAL and Torres Strait Island families expected to join the Kurnai College Morwell community in the new year are learning technical skills to better engage in their children's education.

The Smith Family awarded

THE Smith Family in Gippsland has been recognised for its ongoing delivery of educational support to Kurnai College, and the suite of Learning for Life programs across Morwell and Churchill.

Interim CEO appointed

GippsTAFE chair John Mitchell will man the helm of Latrobe City while it searches for a replacement for outgoing chief executive Paul Buckley.

Santa’s singing helpers

Tinsel decorated trolleys wheeled through the halls of a Traralgon shopping centre last week to be filled with toys for disadvantaged children, while carollers serenaded patrons outside in hope of extra donations to be placed under the Christmas tree.

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.

Latest News

National aero championships lands locally

AERO BY BLAKE METCALF-HOLT   NOTHING like hitting the sky in your own backyard. Latrobe Valley Aero Club hosted the 2026 Australian Light Aircraft Championships recently, seeing the...