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A Toora business owner is pushing to bring the South Gippsland town's first public electric vehicle charging station online, offering up his own land on Stanley Street in a bid to cut through council red tape and capture passing EV traffic on the South Gippsland Highway.

The H5N1 bird flu situation in Australia is developing rapidly, with the virus now confirmed in 12 birds across three states, including a newly detected case in an Australian coastal seabird in South Australia (rather than subantarctic species).

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into public school funding has found that government schools across the state have been systematically underfunded for more than a decade.

The latest Crime Statistics Agency figures suggest the Prom Coast has largely avoided the sharp increase in sexual offences reported across South Gippsland, although several local communities experienced higher levels of property crime during the year ending March 2026.

Public health experts are warning Victorians not to be lulled into a false sense of security by a quieter-than-usual start to the flu season. Lower case numbers earlier in the year are expected to produce a late winter spike.

South Gippsland's rollout of the new FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) bin system and the shift to fortnightly general waste collection from 1 July has prompted some confusion on the kerbside, and a wave of community discussion online.

Rumours of a sinkhole forming in the carpark behind Foster’s Foodworks began circulating online in the community in early July, prompting Zavier Evans to investigate the site himself.