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The wives of workers entering their fourth week of an EnergyAustralia-imposed lockout of the Yallourn Power Station say their families are suffering financial strain and emotional turmoil as a result of the industrial deadlock.

Latrobe Valley's creative heart was thumping in downtown Morwell on Friday night.

A union, a power station and a priest. Industrial deadlock at Yallourn will today be graced with the sort of peacemaker not typically seen in a power sector dispute.

COMMUTERS travelling on V/Line's Traralgon line can now use Myki after the ticketing system was introduced on Monday.

THE case for Gippsland to be included in any high speed rail plans for Australia has again been mounted, despite a preferred route excluding this region.

The first sod is yet to be turned on a $1.2 million Traralgon housing project for people with a severe mental illness, but one advocacy group has already set plans in motion to duplicate the facility in every major Gippsland town.

A PROPOSAL by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to radically overhaul the process of electing the Australian Labor Party's leader has been widely welcomed by local union representatives, despite a 'crisis' meeting of some national union bosses reportedly being held over the plans tomorrow.

The lead negotiator in the Latrobe Valley power industry's most intense industrial dispute since 2000 will resign from his union post.

LATROBE Valley towns have recorded a slight dip in their jobless rates, according to the most recent data.

INTERNATIONAL Boxing Organisation super-featherweight world champion Will Tomlinson will stand for the Palmer United Party in the seat of Gippsland at the next federal election.

Energy conscious Latrobe Valley residents will become informed energy users following workshops held across the region.

The restoration of rail services between Bairnsdale and Traralgon has suffered a further delay, with trains not predicted to be online until late October, following the procurement of rail-grinder machinery from Europe.