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.
Latrobe City’s councillors
Express journalist Annabelle Beale spoke with Latrobe City’s recently elected councillors on their aims for the coming term.
Start of VCE examinations
HUNDREDS of anxious Latrobe Valley year 12 students will sit for the Victorian Certificate of Education English paper today, marking the start of the end-of-year written examinations.
It is easy to be green
THE Scammell household installed solar panels in a bid to reduce their electricity bills, but father Mark was not impressed when told his indulgences - a plasma television and beer fridge - were likely the main culprits behind the bulk of the costs.
‘Smog and bogans’
EFFORTS to "rebrand" Latrobe Valley are set to escalate in coming months but will need to combat widespread external perceptions of "smog, bogans" and "a line at Centrelink".
Workers on way to resolution
CHANTS, boos and whistles, along with the sounds of tooting car horns in support of rallying Department of Human Services workers resounded outside the office of a local politician in Traralgon yesterday afternoon.
Council’s ‘stranglehold’ released
A "SHIFT in power" within Latrobe City Council could be healthy for the region if the parochial division within wards is eradicated, according to an academic.
Predicted challenges for new council
FORMER mayor of Latrobe City foresees challenges facing the new council but said it was "on the right track".
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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The day Morwell East marched the flag home
FOOTBALL
MID GIPPSLAND
By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT
PAST players from Morwell East Football-Netball Club’s last senior flag gathered at the weekend during the Hawks home bout against Foster.
The...
