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With distinctive characteristics, Split Fin and Bent Tip are part of an orca family that has thrilled South Coast residents since being spotted more than 20 years ago.

Under a new licensing agreement, more Victorian water is being returned to Gippsland's Gunaikurnai traditional owners in a bid to further strengthen their connection to country.

Exhausted and feeling like her work was "never enough", Jodie Tuckwell-Knight gave away her chief executive position in Melbourne to move to "an untapped treasure", to enjoy beach walks and time to notice the world around her.

Artist Josephine Jakobi, this year's major prize winner of the International Art Textile Biennale, revisits the life cycles of Victoria's Lake Tyers in her latest art installation project, Observatorium.

Tamia Hood lives in an old pop-top caravan with her mother and four-year-old son, near a town with empty holiday homes.

After their Black Summer ordeal, residents have welcomed a plan to build a crisis centre for Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.

Uncle Herb Patten has been making music from gumleaves since he was five years old and wants others to take it up.

From busking on the streets of Melbourne, to taking centre stage at the Sydney Opera House, Gunaikurnai gum leaf performer Uncle Herb Patten, has had a remarkable musical career performing at schools, public events , festivals, competitions and on numerous TV and radio shows.

The Lake Tyers sandbar has naturally opened to the ocean for the first time since 2016, enthralling a cavalry of curious onlookers keen to witness the awe of Mother Nature’s spectacle.

Fire-affected communities in eastern Victoria have turned out for an inaugural cricket match to compete for an urn shaped from tea tree salvaged from a peat fire which burned for weeks.

Staff shortages are closing Gippsland tourism businesses in the middle of a domestic travel boom — and it's not the only industry suffering.

The emergence of eco fiction, a genre of adult and children’s books, is driven by an underlying message of environmental conservation.

An Aboriginal artist revives the art of possum skin cloak etching to help the East Gippsland community come together to heal after drought, bushfire and the COVID-19 outbreak.

With many of Gippsland's homeless facing "a very long wait" for emergency housing, welfare workers have criticise the Federal Government's $688 million construction stimulus package as a missed opportunity.

Bung Yarnda, also known as Lake Tyers, has a rich Indigenous history as a fishing and camping place for Gunai clans in east Victoria. Now a thriving coastal town, the area faces the pressures of population growth.

Imagine living in the wilderness aboard your own floating art studio, waking up to blissful, uninterrupted views from every window.

Forget silo art — this NAIDOC week it is the enormous cooling tower of a coal-fired power station that is being lit up with an artwork by Aboriginal elder Aunty Eileen Harrison.

The members of Victoria's only all-Indigenous fire brigade are leading a dramatic shift in community attitudes towards fire.

You might think a dusky flathead almost a metre long would be enough to win a fishing competition, but history tells us that's not necessarily the case.

Recent bad weather in Victoria may have contributed to the deaths of a rare dwarf sperm whale and two other smaller whales, an expert at Melbourne Museum says.

The Federal Government is holding forums in Gippsland this week on funding for mobile phone blackspots.

A 56-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in eastern Victoria.

A man has died after being assaulted at a house at Lake Tyers in East Gippsland last night.

The Victorian Government has appointed an interim board to manage the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust in East Gippsland.

A man drowned at Lake Tyers yesterday afternoon.