Local News
18 Aug 09 | GIPPSLANDERS will be presented with some of the best their region has to offer at the inaugural Wellington Tourism Expo.
18 Aug 09 | ASSAULTS, burglaries, property damage and thefts from cars are still occurring at high rates around Wellington Shire, according to new police statistics.
18 Aug 09 | PARAMEDICS have settled on an agreement for better pay and conditions with the State Government, but intensive care paramedics will continue to resign as they feel the Government hasn't addressed their specific concerns.
17 Aug 09 | AN electrical fault is being blamed for a truck fire in Sale's CBD which brought traffic to a stand-still on Sunday.
17 Aug 09 | ROSEDALE police are investigating the disappearance of guinea pigs and hens.
14 Aug 09 | TWO Sale-based florists are flourishing in their chosen field, winning two top apprentice awards at their floristry college.
14 Aug 09 | INTERIM drought assistance to farmers in the Macalister Irrigation District is about to end, throwing local farmers back into the deep end as they struggle with the ongoing drought.
14 Aug 09 | SCHOOL leavers from low income families will be the hardest hit by State Government changes to the TAFE system, according to government data.
14 Aug 09 | WELLINGTON Shire Council is getting tough on footpath trading, enforcing by-laws requiring goods to be displayed 1.5m from a shop front.
14 Aug 09 | RAIDS on farms in the Sale area by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship netted 23 illegal workers this week.
14 Aug 09 | NURSING students at the Sale-based RMIT University course are angry their course is being discontinued in the region, with some students concerned they will have to quit their degrees if forced to transfer to Monash University in Churchill.
11 Aug 09 | INVESTORS in the failed South Eastern Secured Investments (SESI) will receive a third distribution of 10 cents in the dollar, receivers have announced.
11 Aug 09 | THE Victorian Government has delivered on its promise to upgrade 46 level crossings in the 2008-09 financial year through a joint funding program with the Commonwealth Government.
11 Aug 09 | TWO disturbing acts of animal cruelty in Wellington shire are the focus of police investigations, with several kangaroos run down and shot at Darriman and a deer injured at Loch Sport.
11 Aug 09 | POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a fire gutted a townhouse on Desailly St on Saturday night.
11 Aug 09 | FIVE new child protection workers began work in Gippsland yesterday, amid claims the system has reached breaking point.
07 Aug 09 | A SALE teenager with type one diabetes had an audience with the State Government recently when she presented a talk about her life to State Parliament.
07 Aug 09 | CONSTRUCTION of housing for young people with disabilities in Sale marks the realisation of a dream for a passionate group of local residents.
07 Aug 09 | GAMBLERS in Wellington Shire spent a record $24.1 million on electronic gaming machines during the last financial year.
07 Aug 09 | WELLINGTON Shire Council has chosen its preferred route for the South Gippsland Highway realignment _ a route that takes out a row of heritage listed elm trees.