Sticky situation
Honey growers and packers did it tough last year and are expecting to do even worse in 2014, local grower Neil Stuckey explains.
Herbicide creates ‘eyesore’ at park
Unauthorised herbicide spraying at Yinnar South's Martin Walker Reserve has left "ugly dead-zones" around picnic tables and alongside the creek.
Three strikes, you’re out
Latrobe City councillors who refuse to leave chambers when kicked out of meetings could now face serious penalties.
No more late nights: Insp West
One of the Latrobe Valley's most powerful police officers wants to see all local late-night venues shut at 3am.
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.













