Mental health challenges nationwide
A "CRISIS-driven" approach to mental health in the Latrobe Valley is leading to poor outcomes, according to a senator who toured the region recently.
Valley ‘still left wanting’
DESPITE Latrobe Valley being identified as a 'hot-spot' in desperate need of new mental health nursing positions when they are rolled out across Victoria, allocations are tipped to fall well short of meeting those needs.
LRH takes on more graduates
NURSING graduate numbers at Latrobe Regional Hospital are set to increase next year despite union claims up to 40 per cent of the state's nursing and midwifery graduates will miss out on placements.
Twenty years of roses and friendship
Volunteers and Latrobe City Council staff celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Morwell Centenary Rose Garden with a presentation at council offices last week.
Valley residents left short
AMBULANCE Victoria has denied union claims a paramedic shortage may have contributed to the recent death of a Latrobe Valley patient.
Uncertainty lingers over site
GIPPSAERO is set to expand its overseas market but uncertainty still looms over where it will build its new aircraft.
Cuts begin to bite
POLITICAL debate over cuts to health funding, and the implications for local hospital waiting lists, intensified last week.
Enrolments are ‘vital’
CENTRAL Gippsland Institute of TAFE's uncertain future lies at the mercy of next year's student enrolments, its chief executive has admitted, amid concerns State Government cuts have sent the institute spiralling into financial disarray.
Latrobe City’s councillors
Express journalist Annabelle Beale spoke with Latrobe City’s recently elected councillors on their aims for the coming term.
Minister clarifies job cut numbers
THE State Government has predicted staff numbers at Gippsland's department of education will be reduced by about 18, despite fears expressed in past weeks that number could be higher than 60.
Thousands of non-voters to be fined
MORE than 15,000 Latrobe City residents who did not vote during the local government elections will be slugged with a $70 fine if their appeals are not approved by the Victorian Electoral Commission.
Garden of ghouls and ghosts
LATROBE Valley residents who went trick or treating for Halloween last night may have visited a Traralgon resident's creepy graveyard garden.
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Information wanted on Morwell incident
By KATRINA BRANDON
MAJOR Collision Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for information after a man was found deceased on the side of the road in...
