Stories

Regional stories worth lingering over

Original features about the people, places, food and ideas shaping Latrobe City and the wider region.

Tyers & District
The Garden That Taught Jean Galbraith to See
At Dunedin in Tyers, Jean Galbraith and her family made a garden from heavy clay. She learned through its failures, wrote its changing life into Garden in a Valley, and gave generations of readers a place to recognise their own.
5 min read
Yinnar & District
Art in a Cottage: Matchbox Gallery and Yinnar's Creative Main Street
At 36 Main Street, a small cottage brings exhibitions, leadlight craft and community projects into one intimate room. Since 1999, artists, students and visitors have used Matchbox Gallery to make, show and encounter art.
4 min read
Moe & District
The Quiet Room on Kirk Street
Wendy Stanway's search for ways to support her daughter led her towards a larger local purpose: giving people in Moe a place built for deliberate rest. Her answer now sits behind a green shopfront on Kirk Street.
7 min read
Churchill & District
Walking Through the Story of Churchill
Follow Churchill’s gentle town loop and discover how an early school site, a commemorative wall and the unmistakable Cigar carry local history into the streets.
4 min read
Morwell & District
The Day the Southern Cross Landed in Morwell
After weeks of unsettled weather, Morwell’s organisers had a famous aircraft due at eleven, a growing crowd beside a soft paddock and one morning to bring the Southern Cross safely to ground.
4 min read
Family & Play
Australia’s Largest Indoor Inflatable Playground Is in Moe
Inside Stadium 34 in Moe, Australia’s largest indoor inflatable playground turns every climb, slide and obstacle into movement, laughter and the immediate pull to go again.
3 min read
Transport & Connection
Twenty-Two Routes Through Latrobe City

Twenty-two numbered bus routes connect Latrobe City’s major towns and smaller communities, turning public transport into a practical way to see how the Valley’s places and stories fit together.
4 min read
Nature & Landscape
The Sound Before the Falls

Follow the sound of Narracan Creek through open farmland and trees to Narracan Falls, where water spreads across a broad rock shelf before gathering in the pool below—a quiet Gippsland place for picnics, photography and time beside the creek.
3 min read
Food & Drink
Victoria’s Perfect Parma from Newborough

Newborough Hotel earned first place in the 2026 AHA (Vic) Parma of the Year award with a perfect score of 100—recognition built one service, one plate and one careful decision at a time.
4 min read

Regional stories worth lingering over

The Garden That Taught Jean Galbraith to See

Art in a Cottage: Matchbox Gallery and Yinnar's Creative Main Street

The Quiet Room on Kirk Street

Walking Through the Story of Churchill

The Day the Southern Cross Landed in Morwell

Australia’s Largest Indoor Inflatable Playground Is in Moe

Twenty-Two Routes Through Latrobe City

The Sound Before the Falls

Victoria’s Perfect Parma from Newborough