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Safety concerns raised

A V/Line commuter has raised serious safety concerns after a Monday service travelled with an external door wide open for two Gippsland stops, before being noticed by the conductor.

Brown coal investment

BUDGET: INVESTMENT in the Latrobe Valley's brown coal sector will be driven by a range of funding initiatives, according to State Energy and Resources Minister Nicholas Kotsiras.

Open cut in spotlight

BUDGET: The integrity of Latrobe Valley's brown coal open cut network has come under the state budget spotlight, with $4.2 million allocated to improve "high risk" stability issues.

University decision imminent

THE Latrobe Valley community will know by tomorrow whether Monash University and the University of Ballarat will forge ahead with a regional university alliance, though a campus briefing yesterday left staff feeling the plan was a "done deal".

Workers despair

The faces of Latrobe Valley's construction and power industry work vacuum came together at the entrance to Australian Paper's Maryvale mill yesterday morning in a bid to step-up calls for the company to prioritise local workers for local projects.

Hospital funding stoush

LATROBE Regional Hospital's long-standing bid for a multi-million dollar expansion has been used as a political football between the state and federal governments in recent weeks amid accusations of "blame shifting" and "game playing".

Moe misses out

BUDGET: State Member for Narracan Gary Blackwood has moved to assure the Moe community he supports the revitalisation of the town's railway precinct, despite there being no money allocated for the project in next year's budget.

Drivers hospitalised after crash

A 40 year-old Traralgon woman is expected to be transferred from Latrobe Regional Hospital to the Alfred Hospital after she was seriously injured in a crash on Hazelwood Road, near Traralgon this morning. 

Housing wait still high

GIPPSLAND has experienced a slight fall in its public housing waiting list but almost 1000 people remain on a Latrobe Valley list.

A heatbreaking plight

LAST December Renee Martin, 18 weeks pregnant with her second child with husband Chris, had every reason to be excited about life - until a shocking cancer diagnosis threw everything into turmoil.

Yallourn offer ‘dead in the water’

An attempt by Yallourn Power Station operator EnergyAustralia to circumvent unions and break negotiation deadlock appears futile, with the majority of union members pledging to reject a company offer.

Ferguson’s comments ‘one-sided’

The union spearheading the heated industrial stoush at Yallourn Power Station has hit back at comments from former Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, labelling his intervention 'inappropriate'.

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