Laura Poole

The ABC broadcasts hundreds of emergency warnings each season, but for the first time in 24 hours the broadcaster transitioned from emergency fire coverage to emergency flood coverage in the same region.

While covering floods devastating their local communities, some of the ABC's regional reporters and broadcasters found themselves cut off and with their homes under threat.

Emergency services urge East Gippsland residents to pay attention to fire warnings, and make sure they're prepared, with a number of out-of-control bushfires burning across the region.

While Victoria's east prepares for the worst of the state's flooding, there's an oversupply of a different kind facing one central Gippsland community, which was preparing 600 parmigianas, 100 kilograms of steak and thousands of pies to feed 3,000 cyclists taking part in a now-cancelled bike ride.

A Mirboo North landowner offers to buy state forest to prevent it being logged by Victorian Government-owned logging company VicForests.

Hundreds of Hazelwood workers lost their job when the coal-fired power generator in Victoria's Latrobe Valley closed. So, where are they now?

Aboriginal artist Uncle Dennis Seymour, at 86 years old, is one of the oldest university graduates in Gippsland.

Hundreds of Latrobe Valley households are wondering if they will be able to afford to make mortgage repayments after the Hazelwood power station closes.

The Latrobe Valley's brown-coal fired power station Hazelwood closes this month, but still small businesses are investing in the region.

The opening of an art exhibition using coal from Hazelwood mine will coincide with the final weeks of Hazelwood power station's operation.

The 2016 Bass Coast Young Citizen of the Year says Gippsland needs to develop emergency drug and alcohol support services.

At 90 years of age Gippsland farmer Maisie Brooks has no plans for retirement. You often see her astride her quad bike, checking her herd of angus cattle. Read more

Maisie Brooks checks her Angus cattle on the motorbike, supervises fencing repairs, and rides the fluctuating market prices for beef, with no plans to retire.

An East Gippsland mother hopes to raise funds to bring a cuddle cot to the region, allowing grieving families a chance to mourn their lost babies.

Medical students now have access to replica, 3D-printed body parts that have been created using world-first technology.

When Sharon Jacob was researching her breast cancer treatment options, she stumbled across an image that is now reflected in her current design work.

Amazing stories of survival emerge from floods in Northern Tasmania, which have claimed the lives of thousands of cattle and sheep.

Some are knitted, others crocheted and felted. There's even one made out of lego blocks! Welcome to the Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival in Victoria's Gippsland. Read more

Amid the ongoing milk price crisis, a Victorian beef producer is converting his business to dairy.

There are plenty of unique festivals around rural Australia, but none more so then the Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival in South Gippsland.

Author Rosalie Ham says she will try to debunk some of the stereotypes played upon in her novel The Dressmaker in her fourth book, which she is working on.

Taking time out of a usual day-to-day pattern, and finding space to create, is exactly the idea of an artists-in-residence program.

Victorian parents' support groups save millions of dollars worth of prams, cots and car seats from landfill, but it is not widely understood that you should not sell or donate second-hand baby gear without safety checks.

At 70 years old, Australia's oldest female ironman competitor is heading back to the world championships in Hawaii.

You might see it occasionally in the city, but a line-up to get into a shop doesn't happen too often in a rural community — unless it's for quirky hot-cross buns.