Buyback comes to a close
THE State Government's Bushfire Buyback Scheme is drawing to a close, with seven local properties part of the program.
Hospital strategies to reduce wait
NEW strategies have been implemented at Latrobe Regional Hospital to address data indicating mental health patients discharged from Gippsland's hospitals wait longer than those from other regions for follow-up care.
Covert operation nabs drivers
A FIVE-month covert police operation has nabbed 178 people travelling between 10 and 20 kilometres an hour over the speed limit on the region's back-roads.
Long-awaited funds allocated
Recreational funding in the Latrobe City budget has been welcomed as a reprieve for sporting groups like the Latrobe Valley Hockey Association, which has been campaigning for the past three years for a pavilion at its new synthetic pitch in Churchill.
ALP announces Gippsland candidate
A FIVE-time paralympian will contest the Federal seat of Gippsland for the Australian Labor Party at the next election.
Protest camp sets up at Yallourn
Power Station operators are forming a base camp at the station this morning, in protest of the company's decision to lock workers out indefinitely on Friday.
Draft budget up for vote
Latrobe City Council is proposing to increase rates for the next financial year by 5.24 per cent overall
Mine stability ‘at risk’
At least three trouble spots in the state's brown coal network are 'at risk' of failure, according to a "damning" review by an expert geotechnical panel, warning instability in the open cut sector has reached serious levels.
Diversion fault report ‘damning’
A long awaited review into the catastrophic collapse of the Morwell River Diversion into the Yallourn coal mine last year has exposed an extensive list of likely faults in its 'world class' design process.
‘Gut-wrenching’ blow
As one of the operators locked out of Yallourn Power Station on Friday, Charlie* has reached a "gut-wrenching" career low.
Yallourn tensions boil
It is only a matter of time before picket lines form at the gates of Yallourn Power Station, industry observers and union insiders have warned, predicting the likely fallout of an extraordinary operator lockout at the plant on Friday.
Baw Baw councillor dies
The Baw Baw Shire community is mourning the loss of its longest-serving councillor, Bill Harrington.
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CRUEL irony has a new definition.
Morwell Football-Netball Club has lost prized recruit Will Lewis in one of the more dramatic turn of...
