Nadia Budihardjo

Fortescue global director of communications Nicole Moody will leave the Andrew Forrest-led company, just shy of a year in the role.

Menora-based Griffin Group has cleared planning hurdles to build two apartment projects in South Perth, estimated to cost about $28 million in total.

Rio Tinto has proposed to extend its Robe Valley iron ore operations in the Pilbara, which would require clearing of up to 16,802 hectares of land.

WA Labor has announced City of Perth councillor Viktor Ko as its candidate for Curtin, to run against incumbent MP Kate Chaney and Liberal party's Tom White, two months from the election.

Cowan MP Anne Aly has warned voters of using the recent Western Australian results to predict the upcoming federal election, while reflecting on the tight race in Fremantle.

Neighbours have given evidence in the trial over a Jutland Parade lot, including philanthropist Tonya McCusker, who told the court it was “unfortunate” to be dragged into a high-profile case.

Former Fortescue employees who started their own company have failed their bid to overturn the court’s search orders, in the ongoing spat with the Andrew Forrest-led business.

Hundreds of race day stalls are set to be built at Ascot Racecourse as part of a recently approved $64 million proposal to build a new stables complex.

Sam Jones and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the seat of Curtin ahead of the looming federal election.

High-profile barrister Sue Chrysanthou claimed a property developer knew he unlawfully filled up his verge, during a Supreme Court trial over a Jutland Parade site.

A timber processing company has been fined $385,000 over an incident in 2022 that caused a worker's arm to be crushed and needing surgeries.

A research fellow has described the federal government’s Job-ready Graduates package as the worst policy since the introduction of the cane toad, at the launch of an economics report.

The upcoming federal election would need to re-engage young Australians with a growing distrust of political institutions amid cost-of-living pressures, a report shows.

A hopeful Jutland Parade resident claims he has been accused of being a criminal by illegally creating a hazard on his verge, in the trial relating to Dalkeith’s millionaires’ row.

Public and private schools in WA have embraced AI tools under multiple trials.

Exal Group has cleared a planning hurdle over its Nedlands apartment project, after a development assessment panel unanimously backed the $14.5 million proposal.

The corporate watchdog has sued the trustee Australia’s largest superannuation fund over the delay in processing thousands of death benefit claims.

A defamation trial relating to a site on millionaires' row in Dalkeith, close to Kerry Stokes’ property, is ongoing in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Nadia Budihardjo and Claire Tyrrell discuss a Danish town planner's blunt assessment of Perth planning principles.

CIMIC Group’s engineering arm UGL has secured contracts and extensions with existing Western Australian clients, including Alcoa, Woodside, Chevron, and BP.

Shares in Holista CollTech plunged this morning after the Subiaco-based biotech company announced it suffered a setback in the legal proceedings against a US company.

The Public Transport Authority has awarded Rail Systems Australia a contract over a high-capacity signaling project to replace a Transperth rail network system.

Respected medical specialist and former Brightwater Care Group chief executive Penny Flett has died aged 77.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Sam Jones about Red Dog's vet Rick Fenny, who has built one of WA’s most eclectic large family businesses.

Wesfarmers plans to acquire 15 Bunnings properties currently owned by a special purpose investment trust and in the process will record a one-off profit of up to $130 million.

State prosecutors have dropped the child sexual abuse charges against former Nationals MP for the South West, James Hayward.

Macmahon Holdings has been awarded a contract over work on the Poboya gold project in Indonesia, with the deal expected to add $317 million to the company’s orderbook.

Nadia Budihardjo and Claire Tyrrell discuss state political leaders' views on public transport.

Santos has sued US-based Apache Finance, claiming the latter should have indemnified the oil and gas company more than $130 million in taxes and penalty payments.

A development assessment panel has approved Stockland’s plan to build an independent living complex in the state’s South West, estimated to cost $142 million.

Rio Tinto has announced a $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) investment to extend its Brockman mine in the Pilbara, after receiving the green light for the project.

Novelist Holden Sheppard has won the Minderoo Artist Award for 2025, with eight other artists set to also benefit from the arts fund launched by Andrew and Nicola Forrest.