Convoy protest
MONASH Gippsland campus staff fear the implications for their workplace arrangements if enterprise agreement talks are not resolved before University of Ballarat takes over the campus in January next year.
Uni name released
FEDERATION University Australia is the new entity that will represent Monash Gippsland and University of Ballarat's campuses from 1 January next year.
Work bans cause angst for students
WHILE Monash Gippsland campus staff union members have moved to defend work bans on releasing some students' semester results, numerous students are not impressed.
Electoral game-changer
The state seat of Morwell will be re-shaped to encompass Latrobe Valley's three major towns if proposed changes to electoral boundaries are adopted.
Sex abuse accused pleads guilty
A 21 year-old Morwell man has pleaded guilty to eight sexual offence charges involving five different children.
Car careers off bridge
A Morwell man is in a critical but stable condition in the Alfred Hospital, after his car left the McDonald Street bridge, and landed beside the railway tracks.
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.
Digging in for a long ride
Locked out Yallourn operators are preparing themselves for a long drawn out period of financial hardship, despite the recommencement of enterprise bargaining negotiations next week.
Gibson defends rate increase
Latrobe City Council has touted its proposed budget for the next finanical year as "prudent", while maintaining services and boosting funding for major projects.
Rejoice over major projects
Funding earmarked for the Moe railway revitalisation project has emerged as a major highlight for community and business groups in the draft Latrobe City Council budget.
Focusing on planning permits
Latrobe City has reiterated its focus to cut down the time it takes to process planning permits, which was highlighted in a recently-launched online index.















