Colourful character John Elliott from Perth WA, a retired insurance man, raconteur, but now a man with a dog and five camels has walked from Perth, was in Bairnsdale yesterday and stopped off to chat with Lauren Brookes at Molemap in Nicholson st. While on his camel trek around Australia John is fundraising for "Beard Season” raising awareness of skin cancers. John is on his way to Lakes to...

A semi-trailer crashed into the start of the centre barriers, near the Billabong Roadhouse on Monday morning, before coming to a halt 100 metres along the Princes Highway. The truck driver, aged in his 30s, from Melbourne, was uninjured but his scrap metal truck suffered extensive undercarriage damage and had to be towed from the accident scene. He told the Advertiser that the road “is too...

The Clifton Creek Primary School will be rebuilt at a cost of $4.2 million. The State Government this week confirmed the funding with the Education Minister, James Merlino, saying he was honoring a commitment given in the wake of the summer bushfires to rebuild the school. “Schools are often at the heart of the community and used in a variety of ways – that is why rebuilding Clifton Creek...

Truck drivers and freight representative groups are calling for a ‘roughness audit’ of the Princes Highway roadworks between Sale and Bairnsdale. “The recent spate of heavy vehicle accidents indicates all is not well and when truckies with decades of experience behind the wheel say it’s the worst stretch of road in the country and is now referred to as ‘The Goat Track’, you have to listen,”...

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has grounded 250 of its Mercedes-Benz G-Wagens across the state that were operational during the summer bushfires. The Advertiser has been told the vehicles have been sidelined while awaiting new brake hose replacement systems. There are reportedly no such systems in the country at present. The secretary of the Australian Workers...