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Multi-level collaboration

The  message to people participating in antisocial behaviour in the Traralgon multi-storey car park is clear: we will be watching you. 

Cancer treatment claims refuted

CLAIMS Latrobe Valley’s cancer patients could no longer receive radiation treatment at Latrobe Regional Hospital have been staunchly denied by the service provider. 

Fracking freeze for Gld

Fracking freeze for Gippsland

Industrial action averted

Looming industrial action at Hazelwood's power station and mine this week looks to have been averted, after unions and station management agreed on the terms of redundancy for a handful of employees. 

V/Line customers asked to arrive early

V/Line customers have been asked to arrive at Traralgon and Morwell stations 20 minutes earlier to catch connecting buses as works begin today fixing the sunken track near Morwell. 

Highway duplication named priority

Completion of Princes Highway East’s duplication between Traralgon and Sale has been named a State Government priority.

Call for power stations’ ‘retirement’

SOME of Australia’s largest environment groups joined forces in Canberra on Tuesday imploring the Federal Government to provide “certainty” to the Latrobe Valley by announcing the “retirement” of local power stations.

Freight capacity needed

CONCERNS inadequate freight capacity in Gippsland could jeopardise opportunities to secure investors keen to do business here have been raised with the State Government by regional leaders.

Supermarket theft

A man believed to be in his early 20s committed an armed robbery at the Aldi Morwell supermarket on Tuesday around 12.15pm.

Lakes concerns allayed

After two months of anxious waiting, Gippsland Lakes stakeholder concerns over potential water contamination in discharges from the Yallourn open cut have been allayed. 

A month of train delays

At least four weeks of delays are expected on the Gippsland V/Line rail service, after it partially closed again yesterday afternoon due to ongoing track stability issues. 

Rain cripples V/Line track

A major accident on a Gippsland V/Line service was avoided by “sheer luck” on Sunday night, when a train ran over a sunken section of track west of Morwell while travelling at high speed. 

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