Jack McGinn

Monadelphous will buy local high voltage service business High Energy Service for $21.5 million, in a move to expand its capability to support the energy transition.

Northern Star Resources has narrowed its annual production guidance because of challenges at its Kalgoorlie hub but remains bullish in a record gold price environment.

Woodside Energy has taken a $27 billion final investment decision on its Louisiana LNG project in the United States, in a move the company says will make it a global LNG powerhouse.

Premier Roger Cook has defended the state’s heritage protections, after a report emerged that Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting plans to demolish a 120-year-old cottage in West Perth.

Gold Road Resources has put the onus back on its Gruyere joint venture partner Gold Fields to re-engage in merger and acquisition talk, following a rejected move last month.

Perth-headquartered Perseus Mining will self-fund the construction of an $820 million a new goldmine in Tanzania, the first new mine of its kind in the nation in almost two decades.

Gina Rinehart has called for the nation’s defence investment to be more than doubled to 5 per cent of GDP, in an address at the Sydney Opera House on the eve of Anzac Day.

The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has warned of an “explosion” of right to enter permit applications, amid tensions between unions and operators in the Pilbara.

Chalice Mining has continued to reduce its outflows following major cost cuts in August last year, as it aims to pull the investment trigger on the Gonneville project near Toodyay in 2027.

Jack McGinn and Justin Fris discuss trends and revenue streams for sporting businesses in Western Australia.

Peter Dutton has pledged to increase Australia’s defence spending to 3 per cent of the nation’s GDP within a decade if elected next month, in line with US requests.

Woodside Energy has labelled recent political rhetoric “encouraging” as it progresses a plan to tie a field back through its North West Shelf plant.

Capricorn Metals chief executive Paul Criddle has been granted leave pending the resolution of aggravated assault charges, to which he recently pleaded not guilty.

Greatland Gold directors including Mark Barnaba and Elizabeth Gaines will be paid to surrender millions worth of in-the-money share options, to meet the company’s ASX listing requirements.

A Perth Basin gas exploration joint venture which counts John Poynton-chaired Strike Energy among its partners has abandoned its latest exploration well.

Bellevue Gold has made quick work of its push to close out its near-term hedge book contracts, spending $110.8 million to free up the bulk its committed forward sales for this calendar year.

Texas-headquartered unlisted Black Mountain has revealed its contentious Valhalla gas project in the Kimberley is on the market.

Japanese energy giant Inpex’s vision of making the Bonaparte carbon capture project off Darwin a reality has progressed to its next stage, in a major boost for the technology.

Infrastructure WA has endorsed the business case for Westport but flagged that the megaport’s $7.2 billion price tag could be subject to change.

Federal shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has doubled down on his opposition to critical minerals tax credits, after prominent Nationals candidate Mia Davies backed the Labor-led plan.

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest has been named one of TIME's 100 most influential figures of 2025 alongside some polarising figures, less than a month after gracing the magazine’s cover.

Shareholders in De Grey Mining have given the all-clear for Northern Star’s $5 billion all-scrip acquisition to go ahead, days after Gold Road Resources announced its support.

The state’s environment watchdog has recommended greater independence for the panels advising Chevron and the state on turtle and quarantine management at the Gorgon gas project.

Four cyclones across a three-month period have weighed on Rio Tinto’s Western Australian iron ore shipments, with mitigation efforts expected to cost the miner around $150 million.

Greatland Gold has unveiled a plan to seamlessly bring ore from its Havieron deposit into production through the Telfer goldmine from the 2028 financial year.

Fenix Resources is yet to decide whether it will match a bid for Mark Creasy’s CZR Resources before Easter, as it navigates a three-way bidding war for the Robe Mesa iron ore project.

Forrest-backed Greatland Gold has built up a cash balance of almost $400 million off better-than-expected output from its Telfer goldmine, as it gears up for a mid-year listing on the ASX.

Mineral Resources has hit out over a levy agreement between Chevron and the Pilbara Ports Authority, as the state pursues $5 million it claims it’s owed by the embattled miner.

Chevron Australia has returned more than $8 billion to its US parent company since the beginning of last calendar year, after generating $8.3 billion in profit over the course of 2024.

The state government has struck a memorandum of understanding with the world’s fifth-largest defence contractor, as it seeks to turbo-charge the growth of the industry in WA.

Bellevue Gold has stepped back from its five-year production plan, will undertake a $156 million equity raising, and has launched a strategic review into recent troubles at its namesake goldmine.

Sam Jones and Jack McGinn discuss former NT chief minister Michael Gunner’s new role with KPMG.