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Won Wron farmer Paul Mumford has been elected president of the United Dairyfarmers of Victoria.

Police are searching for two women who allegedly stole $370 from a Stratford opportunity shop on Tuesday.

Union members and former Esso workers manning the 533-day protest camp at Longford have vowed to continue the fight to change workplace legislation, believing the Gippsland issue could become an international test case in industrial action.

Residents living in small towns and coastal areas within Wellington Shire will pay less for road projects than their urban counterparts, as the council changes the way it charges residents for road projects to create what its says will be a fairer system.

An inquiry into the management of PFAS contamination in and around Defence bases has urged the federal government to extend blood testing programs, ban the firefighting foams that have contaminated land in and around Sale, pay compensation to property owners and businesses and improve health advice.

Coalition Against PFAS president Lindsay Clout said the findings of a report that both the Defence Department and government “not only lost control of managing PFAS contamination in Australia but in truth, never had any”.

The Red Knights will embark on the 21st Annual Keith Hamilton Toy Run on Saturday, bearing gifts for children and teenagers in need.

Work on the $80 million Fulham Prison extension is expected to ramp up in the new year, with the management unit, accommodation unit and associated activities hub expected to be fully operational by mid-2020.

Sale's new Christmas tree lit up on Friday night.

ELECTION 2018 | Labor's Harriet Shing may hold on to her place in the upper house of state parliament.

A teenager was taken to Sale hospital with serious injuries on Friday, after being slashed with a machete in Brennan Park, Sale.

Police are appealing for information following a car fire in Longford on Saturday night.