Australia Day in Lakes Entrance will see a fun-filled afternoon and evening of celebrations beginning at 2pm on the foreshore. Lakes Entrance Action and Development Association (LEADA) is once again organising something for everyone with food and market stalls set up along the esplanade, live music, Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony and the popular Duck Cup. The evening will finish with a...

Restaurants, takeaway venues, hotels and clubs have all had one thing in common over the past month – a chip drought. They have been in short supply due mainly to flooding in potato growing areas in most states in Australia. Farmers have had to put new crops in which has left a gap in supply causing the traditional summer meal of fish and chips to be appreciated even more. Lakes Entrance venues...

A whale carcass that washed in through the channel at Lake Tyers Beach last week has been causing great interest to local residents.  It is now stuck in the lake as the entrance has closed. The carcass is approximately seven metres long and although in a decomposed state the spine and blubber is still evident. Many swimmers in the lake are unaware the whale is there because it is caught in...

Vaping presents real dangers to the health of the region's young people, says Gippsland Lakes Complete Health's Tehseen Zafar.  Speaking at recent presentations at Toorloo Arm and St Brendan's primary schools, Tehseen, a GLCH prevention and population wellbeing worker, said vaping among young Victorians had surged in popularity since 2019 (up from 2.8 per cent to more than 15 per...

Local caravan parks are reporting since Christmas Day they have been operating at full capacity.  They have welcomed back their return guests plus a large number of first timers to Lakes Entrance and Lake Tyers Beach for what has been a bumper season thus far. John and Kelly Leicester, who are in their first year as managers at Big Four Waters Edge Caravan Park, are loving their role. "We...