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Shorter duck hunting season scrutinised

By PHILIP HOPKINS THE state government's decision to allow a truncated duck-hunting season has been strongly criticised by Gippsland politicians as 'a slur' and 'disgraceful',...

Yallourn’s $400m maintenance job

By PHILIP HOPKINS ENERGY Australia will bring forward $400 million of maintenance work at Yallourn power station to stop falling profits at the plant, which...

Commercial stage

By PHILIP HOPKINS JAPAN's Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, which uses Latrobe Valley brown coal to produce clean hydrogen, will proceed to its commercial...

Viewing platform up and running

By ZOE ASKEW DARREN Chester, the federal Member for Gippsland, did not share the same attire as most Heyfield Wetlands visitors, hiking along the gravel...

AGL welcomes large cohort of apprentices

AGL Loy Yang has welcomed nine new apprentices for 2023, representing one of the largest apprentice intakes since privatisation in 1995. Aged between 17 and...

Cameron demands work to start soon

THE Nationals Member for Morwell, Martin Cameron, has called on the state government to deliver a Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) station promised for Moe...

Courtyard installed

By TOM HAYES GIPPSLAND Memorial Park has welcomed the addition of a new courtyard, with the purpose of holding ash interments. Before the development, the site...

Hazelwood probe

By PHILIP HOPKINS THE federal government is investigating the Hazelwood Mine Rehabilitation Project to assess its environmental impact on the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland waterways. A...

Company and director charged after serious head injury

WORKSAFE has charged a Gippsland industrial component manufacturer and its sole director after an apprentice was seriously injured in October 2021. Dennis Jones Engineering Pty...

Shoddy end to 85-year operation

COMMENT By JOHN CAMERON THE Maryvale Mill opened in the Latrobe Valley in 1937 and has since grown to be one of the largest employers...

Protest takes place outside McDonald’s

By LIAM DURKIN ALLEGATIONS of sexual harassment led to a demonstration outside McDonald's Traralgon Central on Friday 17. The rally, organised by the Retail...

Former MP puts her hand up for Aston

By STEFAN BRADLEY CATHRINE Burnett-Wake, a former Victorian Liberal Party Upper House MP for Eastern Victoria, has put her hand up to run in the...

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Delburn turbines could be as tall as Loy Yang cooling towers

By AIDAN KNIGHT   THE State Electricity Commission hosted a series of drop-in sessions recently, catering to both community and industry, in an effort to educate...