Isabel Vieira joined Business News in 2022, co-leading breaking news and covering resources (critical minerals), insolvencies and corporate finance.
She was project editor on the 2024 edition of Business News' Power 500 publication and regularly features on the At Close of Business podcast. Ms Vieira won an Alliance Area of Business Publishers award in 2024.
Ms Vieira previously spent two years in the Great Southern, first at the independent Great Southern Weekender and then at Seven West Media'sNarrogin Observer and Albany Advertiser newspapers.
She studied at Curtin University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
Planning authorities have waved through a $200 million plan to build a 34-storey timber tower that the City of Perth hopes will activate the area and aid its population growth goals.
ASIC chair Joe Longo says surveillance in the private credit space has already uncovered “grubby behaviour” as he takes a closer look at the private markets.
Premier Roger Cook and Treasurer Rita Saffioti have been named the state’s most powerful people, edging out mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest in the 2025 Power 500.
A long-running English college for international students has closed its doors and called in a liquidator, citing federal government visa settings as a factor hampering its enrolment numbers.
Gold and manganese play Element 25 has notched $50 million loan from a federal government financing agency to help underpin the expansion of its Butcherbird project in the Pilbara.
A long-running legal row between Zuleika Gold and Catalyst Metals over alleged damages owed to the Mark Creasy-backed junior miner will be heard in the state's highest court.
Telecommunications-focused contractor GenusPlus Group has bolstered its exposure to the renewables market after securing a $65 million contract for the Merredin big battery.
A contractor has been picked to redevelop the ageing Mullewa Hospital, with $19.6 million set aside to build a modern 24/7 emergency department and patient facilities.
Century-old Australian shoe brand Wittner is set to be sold to a national shoe retailer after it buckled to rising costs and called in administrators earlier this year.
Former politician Vince Catania has taken the reins of rare earths hopeful Hasting Technology Metals, now partnered with Andrew Forrest’s private mining vehicle.
The state government is setting guidelines for renewable energy project developers to financially give back to host communities, but questions have been raised on its enforcement.
The 122-year-old ‘Golden Pipeline’ designed by C.Y O’Connor is set for a half a billion-dollar upgrade to replace aging infrastructure and boost capacity amid water shortages.
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is bringing Roy Hill and Atlas Iron under the new banner of Hancock Iron Ore to make the iron ore producers "more productive".
Prominent resources sector lobbyist Rebecca Tomkinson has been appointed WA’s next agent general, a high-profile trade role which will see her relocate to London.
The exploration sector is experiencing a significant downturn as investors remain weary amid heavy market uncertainty, but BDO says gold proves to be a bright spot.
A shire at the centre of an $18bn renewable energy project pipeline is urging the WA government to ensure regional communities benefit from green energy investment.
A sales campaign for Fox Friday Brewing attracted 65 interested parties before a fellow craft brewer emerged as the buyer for the national business, including its Perth venue.
A proposal to remove strict operating limitations on a lime pit near Denmark has been knocked back again in a move one farmer-turned-miner has labelled 'anti-development'.
The City of Vincent has followed the City of Perth in banning the hiring of e-scooters in order to conduct a review of the service following the fatality last weekend.
GR Engineering has notched a $79 million contract variation to significantly bolster its work on a plant upgrade at Vault Mineral's goldmining operations near Leonora.
ASX-listed e-commerce company Toys ‘R’ Us has called in administrators from BDO, marking a second time the toy retailer brand has tumbled into trouble.
E-scooters for hire will be scrubbed from the streets of the Perth CBD in the next 48-hours as the local government prepares to enforce a temporary ban in the wake of a fatal crash.
Shares in ASX-listed Cobalt Blue surged after it locked in a supply contract with mining major Glencore to feed its early-stage cobalt and nickel refinery project in Kwinana.
One Nation candidate and civil contractor Tyron Whitten has surpassed Labor in a shock move to secure WA's last Senate spot in the wake of the federal election.
The public consultation floodgates have opened on Alcoa’s proposals to open new bauxite mines in the Darling Range and increase production at its Pinjarra alumina refinery.
The Legal Practice Board of WA has become the latest target of a cyber attack, after hackers accessed bank details and other information of legal professionals.
Health Infrastructure Minister John Carey has declared the long-running saga over the Women and Babies Hospital's location is over, as the ink dries on the $1.8 billion contract with Webuild.
Mineral Resources has again cut its iron ore volume guidance from its Onslow Iron project as further issues tied to its trouble-plagued and under-repair haul road arise.
South32 subsidiary Worsley Alumina has notched $4.4 million in federal government funds to support the development of emission-curbing processes at its refinery near Collie.