Bairnsdale

The Hazelwood dredger that mine operator ENGIE demolished on Thursday morning caught fire at about 3.30pm. Two seats in the dredger, oil and grease were burning when CFA from Morwell, Traralgon and Churchill arrived on the scene.

Dozens of cows escaped from a South Gippsland property in Victoria's east overnight, with one later found stuck on a trampoline.

The Victorian government is putting Gippsland timber industry jobs at risk with its "snail's pace attempts" at establishing new timber plantations, according to the opponents of the state's recently re-announced plantation plan.

More than 20 new police officers have begun work across the Bairnsdale division since July, as part of the biggest spend on regional policing in Victoria Polices 167-year history.

AT the time the Gippsland Times went to print on Thursday morning, there were eight cases of COVID-19 in regional Victoria. There were five active cases in Mitchell Shire, which borders Melbourne, and three in Greater Shepparton.

Tomorrow's Moe Cup meeting will not be open to. Moe Racing Club chief executive officer Shane Berry told The Express that the restrictions still in place for the COVID-19 pandemic had put the kibosh on any hope spectators would be on course.

FISHERS in Lakes Entrance now have a bigger, safer spot to wet a line thanks to an upgrade of Reeve Landing Jetty on Bullock Island.

Central Gippsland Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives are releasing a digital image of a man they wish to speak to following an incident in Traralgon last week.

A woman has reported being grabbed and dragged towards a park in Traralgon, southeast of Melbourne. The women was walking along a path around 6:45PM on October 8th, when she realised she was being followed by a man with a large dog.

Gippsland photographers are scrambling to get clarification about student photographs after a department ruling banned them because of health concerns.