Home News Page 992

News

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.

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.

Latest News

Match of the round lives up to hype

CRICKET CLV By LIAM DURKIN     LEISURELY weather provided a clam backdrop for an afternoon's cricket last Saturday. With one eye on proceedings and the other on the Caulfield...