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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.

The Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE has confirmed a 10 per cent drop in enrolments on last year's figures, as the institute's course overhaul, largely forced by State Government budget cuts, begins to settle.

The power industry's state and national union powerbrokers are being summoned for high level talks this week, to develop contingency plans should industrial turmoil at Yallourn continue to deteriorate.

A Moe man has received an unreserved apology from the management of West Gippsland Hospital, after a communication breakdown led to a last-minute cancellation of gall-bladder surgery

A MAN has been charged over the fatal shooting of a family's pet husky near Yallourn North on Anzac Day.

The future of a three lot subdivision at 11 Webb Street, Traralgon is up in the air after Latrobe City Council did not vote on the matter at Monday night's meeting.