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A Sale couple has been fined for breaching Chief Health Officer directions after a frivolous roadtrip on Saturday.

A motorist who had just filled up their car with petrol was lucky to escape injury after a milk tanker crashed into a service station in Traralgon early Friday morning.

Hospitality businesses are seething over the lack of clarity and "common sense" in the state government's plan to bring the state out of restrictions, widely dubbed as a "roadmap to nowhere".

With worries about the future as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, people stuck in transit are facing extra layers of uncertainty.

The 'roadmap' out of COVID-19 restrictions is unbalanced and will punish Gippslanders and Gippsland businesses unnecessarily, according to local politicians.

Those in the local music scene are seeing an uptake in new and retuning faces to the industry, as many people turn to instruments to help fill the isolation void.

The state government's native timber transition plan has been labelled a sham by a local MP.

Welfare advocates have slammed the Real Estate Institute of Victoria's advice to landlords not to negotiate rent reductions following the extension of restrictions it claims have "shut down" the property market for an uncertain period.

A 75-megawatt solar farm near Toongabbie has been approved by state Planning Minister Richard Wynne.

The Forest Stewardship Council of Australia is under pressure over governance issues - to the extent FSC headquarters in Germany is understood to have threatened to de-register the Australian branch or appoint an administrator if the local certification body does not get its act together.

An online fundraising raffle organised by the family of a three-year-old Sale boy will help raise money for important gene therapy medical research.

After years of negotiations, light aircraft pilots are hopeful that change is underway to resolve long-standing access issues at West Sale Airport.