Tradies Safety Awareness Month
By KATRINA BRANDON
SAFETY awareness is very important in all trades and walks of life, but some struggle.
Twenty-five to 30 per cent of people...
Cancer battle marathon fundraiser
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
It’s acts of kindness that drive humanity.
Trafalgar’s Jodi Thoroughgood and Drouin’s Briony Schembri will run the Melbourne Marathon to raise awareness...
Bourne’s Simpson Desert effort
By TOM HAYES
COULD you imagine trotting across a desert in 30 degree heat? Not me.
Traralgon local Blake Bourne has recently returned from his trip...
Labor calls for restoration of forests
By PHILIP HOPKINS
A FORMER Gippsland forestry scientist and historian has described a Labor Party environmental report that calls to end native forest harvesting and...
Police Beat: Poisoning investigation continues
POLICE BEAT
HOMICIDE SQUAD DETECTIVES CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE LEONGATHA POISONING
HOMICIDE Squad detectives are investigating after three people died from suspected mushroom poisoning in Leongatha.
Four people...
The Valley’s Voice
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
ANOTHER protest was held outside the Gippsland Performing Arts Centre during the most recent Latrobe City Council meeting, in opposition to the...
What’s next for EnergyAustralia?
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
ENERGYAUSTRALIA has committed to a $400 million investment at the Yallourn Power Station to underpin improved asset reliability, safety, and performance ahead...
Bringing the Rosedale Hotel back
By KATRINA BRANDON
THE Rosedale Hotel is under new management and is bracing for the day that Rosedale is no longer “the town with no...
Valley Transition Plan released
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
MINISTER for Regional Development, and Morwell-based MP, Harriet Shing last week announced the completion of the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland Transition Plan,...
Energy Australia battery plans
By PHILIP HOPKINS
ENERGY Australia is to build an $800 million, 350 megawatt-capacity battery in the Latrobe Valley, that is expected to be in operation...
Major upgrade for Jeeralang power station
By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE refurbishing of the Jeeralang gas power station was no slick corporate deal; it was a convoluted, international process of pure luck...
Another one bites the dust
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
ANOTHER huge blow came for Morwell last week, when the National Bank of Australia (NAB) announced the closure of its Morwell branch.
The...
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Holding the line
By PEACE IJIYERA
ON the Saturday of Reconciliation Week (May 30), Indigenous author, Traditional Owner and Native Title Holder, Frankie Dunne, held a book launch...
