Auto import expansion
A niche Traralgon auto-manufacturing business is expanding to localise its production line, in response to growing demand for imported American vehicles.
Impounded friends
Barks, howls and meows echoed through the series of cages as lost dogs and cats yearned to go home.
Re-claiming power
Latrobe City councillors hope new planning regulations will help strip property developers of their power to build high-density dwellings in quiet residential areas.
A sense of pride
Dance students, parents and teachers from around the region gathered for the 27th annual International Power Morwell Festival of Dance.
Time to step up: CFMEU
The union representing 75 locked-out Yallourn power station operators has called on alternative unions to "step up to the plate", after a return to enterprise bargaining negotiations this week ended without agreement.
Apprentices still out of work
Just 19 apprentices found ongoing employment through a jobs initiative, which ended on Sunday, falling well short of the target Regional Development Victoria set.
A story of a life well-lived
Morwell resident Pauline McClounan's life story has been told among the pages of musings in her recently published collection of poems.
Parker vows to fight for region
The local federal election campaign will see an 'old school scrapper' thrown into the fray, with trades union heavyweight John Parker announcing he will run as an independent for the seat of McMillan.
Yallourn water discharge increased
The operator of Yallourn's waterlogged brown coal mine cut has been granted a 60 per cent increase to its water discharge allowance by the Environment Protection Authority.
Gonski uncertainty lingers
Significant discrepancies in Gonski funding projections for some Latrobe Valley schools remain un-addressed, with the Federal leadership changeover casting a further cloud of uncertainty over Victoria's inclusion in the reforms.
Ambos reject govt claims
PARAMEDICS have rejected claims by the State Government last week they had not made a "genuine" effort to resolve a protracted industrial dispute.
Convoy protest
MONASH Gippsland campus staff fear the implications for their workplace arrangements if enterprise agreement talks are not resolved before University of Ballarat takes over the campus in January next year.
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Machete ban sweeps Victoria
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THE state government has used extraordinary powers to totally ban the sale of machetes.
Machete sale bans came into effect Wednesday, May 28.
Premier Jacinta Allan...
