Latrobe Valley Express

09/11/2025

08/11/2025

07/11/2025

Ahead of welcoming its first residents in the coming months, Minister for Mental Health Ingrid Stitt stopped by the recently constructed and soon-to-open Traralgon Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) centre.

The latest Latrobe Valley facility is part of the state government’s $141 million expansion program to deliver new and refurbished mental health centres across regional Victoria.

By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT AHEAD of welcoming its first residents in the coming months, Minister for Mental Health Ingrid Stitt stopped [...]

07/11/2025

Midweek pennant bowls continued Tuesday with players enjoying good bowling conditions following heavy weekend rain.

Midweek pennant bowls continued Tuesday with players enjoying good bowling conditions following heavy weekend rain.on with Jesse Hebbard, Mo Leighton and Scott Jones winning 29-10 against Tara Harle their only winner.

BOWLS STRZELECKI NORTH MIDWEEK PENNANT BY MICHAEL HOLROYD   MIDWEEK pennant bowls continued Tuesday with players enjoying good bowling conditions [...]

07/11/2025

Music sensation is set for Moe Town Hall on November 15.

Bringing in a collaboration from Latrobe Community Concert Band (LCCB), Morwell Citizens Band, West Gippsland Concert Band, and local saxophone sensation Saxsation, attendees can relax for free to the combined performance of the four bands.

By KATRINA BRANDON MUSIC sensation is set for Moe Town Hall on November 15. Bringing in a collaboration from Latrobe [...]

07/11/2025

Latrobe Valley Racing Club finally got the weather it desired (and deserved) at the weekend.

Sun shone down on Glenview Park, Traralgon for the club’s Derby Day meeting last Saturday – one of just two race meetings held in Traralgon each year.

HORSE RACING By LIAM DURKIN LATROBE Valley Racing Club finally got the weather it desired (and deserved) at the weekend. [...]

06/11/2025

The state government has fast-tracked approval of a 300-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) in Hazelwood as AGL warned that hundreds of jobs will go as the company funds its multi-million transition away from coal.

By PHILIP HOPKINS THE state government has fast-tracked approval of a 300-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) in Hazelwood as [...]

06/11/2025

The first day of red ball cricket in Cricket Latrobe Valley was tinged with sadness at the weekend.

Usual gamesmanship synonymous with club cricket was momentarily shelved, as players and officials paused to pay respect to Melbourne teenager Ben Austin, who was tragically killed after being struck by a ball during a training drill gone fatally wrong.

CRICKET CLV By LIAM DURKIN THE first day of red ball cricket in Cricket Latrobe Valley was tinged with sadness [...]

06/11/2025

06/11/2025

A local working within the community services sector has helped surge a potentially lifesaving domestic violence disclosure scheme in Victoria.

Latrobe Valley resident Michelle Smith, who is a senior case manager working with family violence victim survivors and perpetrators for the last eight years, approached East Gippsland Shire Deputy Mayor Sonia Buckley about taking Clare’s Law to the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) – the peak legislative body for Victorian local councils.

By BLAKE METCALF-HOLT   A LOCAL working within the community services sector has helped surge a potentially lifesaving domestic violence [...]

06/11/2025

Warning: this story details an Aboriginal person who has died. Reader discretion is advised.

The death of a former Moe woman who died recently while in custody at a Hobart women’s prison, has prompted calls for reform in Tasmanian’s prison system.

Chelsea Bracken, formerly of Kingsford Street, Moe, was incarcerated in the Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison located at Risdon Vale, 10 kilometres north of Hobart.

By AIDAN KNIGHT Warning: this story details an Aboriginal person who has died. Reader discretion is advised. THE death of [...]