A 40-year-old Lakes Entrance man has been charged with several offences following a spate of cigarette thefts from service stations in East Gippsland. Police executed a search warrant at a Lakes Entrance address on Thursday, which resulted in the arrest of man. He was charged with aggravated burglary, burglary, attempted burglary and two counts of theft. Police allege the man broke into a...

Heavy rainfall overnight in Omeo has completely flooded the local caravan park.  The park was evacuated overnight as the floodwaters continued to rise. More than 110 millimetres of rain was received within 15 hours. Mud from the floodwaters entered cabins and lapped at the doorsteps of caravans after the Livingstone Creek, which runs through the park, overflowed. Park management has...

A record number of more than 410,000 estuary perch have been stocked into seven waterways across Victoria, including East Gippsland. The Gippsland Lakes has been stocked for the second year in a row with 140,000 fingerlings. At Lake Tyers, 25,000 estuary perch have been released, while 5000 each have been released into both the Bemm River and Snowy River. Estuary perch are a popular target for...

It’s two years since the Black Summer bushfires raged through the forests of East Gippsland. At Clifton Creek, about 20 kilometres north-east of Bairnsdale, the 40 hectare native forest property of the Hermans family was completely burnt when fire raced through in the final days of December 2019. Wiped out in the fire were an incalculable number of large mature trees. John Hermans says the...

Jannette Langley has put herself forward as the Australian Labor Party’s candidate for the Federal seat of Gippsland. Mrs Langley, who was raised in the Latrobe Valley, will be pitted against the current sitting member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, at the next Federal election, expected sometime this year, but yet to be announced. During a visit to Bairnsdale in December, Mrs Langley indicated...