Employment rate worryingly low
By PHILIP HOPKINS
WITH labour force participation in Gippsland well below the Victorian average, affordable and accessible education is a priority for the region, according...
‘FedFest’ on campus to welcome students for new year at Churchill
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
MORE than 3000 first year students across all Federation campuses got to experience a new world as ‘FedFest’ was in full swing...
Shorter duck hunting season scrutinised
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE state government's decision to allow a truncated duck-hunting season has been strongly criticised by Gippsland politicians as 'a slur' and 'disgraceful',...
Yallourn’s $400m maintenance job
By PHILIP HOPKINS
ENERGY Australia will bring forward $400 million of maintenance work at Yallourn power station to stop falling profits at the plant, which...
Commercial stage
By PHILIP HOPKINS
JAPAN's Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, which uses Latrobe Valley brown coal to produce clean hydrogen, will proceed to its commercial...
Viewing platform up and running
By ZOE ASKEW
DARREN Chester, the federal Member for Gippsland, did not share the same attire as most Heyfield Wetlands visitors, hiking along the gravel...
AGL welcomes large cohort of apprentices
AGL Loy Yang has welcomed nine new apprentices for 2023, representing one of the largest apprentice intakes since privatisation in 1995.
Aged between 17 and...
Cameron demands work to start soon
THE Nationals Member for Morwell, Martin Cameron, has called on the state government to deliver a Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) station promised for Moe...
Courtyard installed
By TOM HAYES
GIPPSLAND Memorial Park has welcomed the addition of a new courtyard, with the purpose of holding ash interments.
Before the development, the site...
Hazelwood probe
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE federal government is investigating the Hazelwood Mine Rehabilitation Project to assess its environmental impact on the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland waterways.
A...
Company and director charged after serious head injury
WORKSAFE has charged a Gippsland industrial component manufacturer and its sole director after an apprentice was seriously injured in October 2021.
Dennis Jones Engineering Pty...
Shoddy end to 85-year operation
COMMENT
By JOHN CAMERON
THE Maryvale Mill opened in the Latrobe Valley in 1937 and has since grown to be one of the largest employers...
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Melbourne makes Opals cut
BASKETBALL
FIBA
BY BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
SEVEN cuts were made for the Australian Opals, with Traralgon's Jade Melbourne holding her spot.
The duel WNBL and WNBA player will don...
