Traralgon, Australia News

THE Fat Cattle sale last week at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, saw an increase in the yarding of all categories, except heifers, where the numbers dropped off around 100 head.

VICTORIA'S main regional cities would be linked by a four-lane superhighway under an ambitious plan to help the state cope with a vastly bigger population.

A FIREFIGHTER sacked for swearing on emergency radio while his property was burning on Black Saturday has won an apology from the CFA after it accused him of having a history of bullying.

RED tape is preventing Warrnambool from securing its own life-saving cancer scanning machine, according to south-west medical specialist John Hounsell.

Drouin's Ben Proctor won the WGLFL reserves best-and-fairest medal last week. SALE coach and tough midfielder Adrian Cox, along with speedy Traralgon half-forward Michael Geary, tied with 14 votes each in the Trood Award and Rodda Medal for the best player in the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League.

FROM dust storms to blizzards, teeming rain and gale-force winds to bushfires - not to mention the odd 12-metre wall of water - Australia has been hit by yet another weekend of wild weather.

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Four people standed in blizzard conditions after leaving their vehicle in Victoria's alpine region have been found.

WHEN Jack Hegarty was in grade 6, the children at school said gay men were all ''poofs and faggots''. If you were homosexual, you were guaranteed to get AIDS and die, and those attracted to the same sex were ''disgusting''. The homophobic vitriol that circulated in the playground cut deep for a teenager who knew he was gay and wanted to be open ...

SPITTING out a thick Glaswegian drawl, Chris McMahon has the gift of the gab - and that's saying something.

Two people have been found dead in Victoria's east in an apparent murder-suicide. A 25-year-old woman was found stabbed to death at a house in Ash Street, Morwell, in the Latrobe Valley at about 4.30pm Saturday.

Sunday, September 6, 2009 The West Gippsland Latrobe Football League Semi Finals were played this weekend at the Moe and Sale Recreation Reserves.

IT WAS more than a mark of respect, it was a show of solidarity. More than 1000 people yesterday overflowed a Gippsland hall to farewell two of the region's own, father-and-daughter fatalities of the Kokoda plane crash.

KOKODA has become a pilgrimage for a generation of Australians seeking to understand the sacrifices of their parents and grandparents in the defence of Australia.

THE Mid-Gippsland Football League is in shock after the revelation that Mirboo North reserves player Joe Bordonaro has been filmed tampering with the umpires' votes for the reserve competition's best-and-fairest award.

All lost ... tour operators say more deaths are inevitable at the Kokoda Track / Graphic: Lincoln Archer Three bodies identified in the wreckage May take up to three days to find 10 more World news: Latest across the globe GRIEVING families face an agonising wait of up to three days before all 13 bodies from the doomed Kokoda flight CG4684 are ...

FIREFIGHTERS across the district are being forced to do a dangerous job with out-of-date and inadequate equipment, it has been claimed.

FIREFIGHTERS across the district are being forced to do a dangerous job with out-of-date and inadequate equipment, it has been claimed.

FIREFIGHTERS across the district are being forced to do a dangerous job with out-of-date and inadequate equipment, it has been claimed.

Stage 1: Traralgon - Boolarra 51.5km Nineteen year old takes stage one as Leigh Howard takes stage two and overall lead.