Tom Zaunmayr

A week-long impact at port hubs in the Pilbara due to cyclone Narelle has cost Qube upwards of $5 million.

A WA government cash injection will keep vital food relief delivery trucks on the road as demand for their services ramps up due to rising fuel bills.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Jack McGinn about the new Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA president Digby Stretch.

Mark Pownall, Nadia Budihardjo, Claire Tyrrell and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the Hancock-Wright judgment, major property deals, the fuel crisis and agribusiness woes.

The new agriculture lobby leader is balancing an overhaul of the organisation and a sweeping policy agenda.

A company backed by former West Coast Eagle Matt Priddis has swooped on a 350-hectare farm near Albany for $7.4 million.

WAFarmers has warned Elders' retreat from selling Western Australian wool locally is the first domino in the sector's supply chain to fall as the federal government's live export ban looms.

WA Premier Roger Cook expects tighter fuel restrictions are around the corner as uncertainty looms over the length of a US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.

An Aboriginal joint venture project has been shortlisted by the state government as a fix to Port Hedland's water supply constraints.

An Aboriginal-owned sea cucumber processor in Denham puts a cosmetic twist on Australia's oldest trade.

Sam Jones and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the recent North West edition of Business News magazine.

Rio Tinto, BHP, and Fortescue are finding different roadblocks and workarounds in efforts to decarbonise their Pilbara mines.

Work to build the first solar farm under a traditional owner-backed three-gigawatt renewable energy plan has begun.

The flexible design of a large modular camp on the outskirts of Karratha could lend itself to townhouse living.

The foreign owner of two mothballed abattoirs has put both facilities up for sale and will exit WA after two years of radio silence about its future.

Fortescue expects to be running its Pilbara mining network on green energy by 2028, netting the miner a predicted cost saving of up to $US800 million.

Councils in WA's grain belt want the state to impose bigger setbacks and stronger end-of-life rules on wind farm proponents and let locals decide how to use community funds.

Taiwanese expats Ginger and Steven Lo invested in Karratha's cafe scene as others upped stumps.

Tom Zaunmayr and Sam Jones discuss the 50 most powerful people in the state's North West.

The North West's importance to Australia's economy places the region in a uniquely powerful position.

Vouchers for fixed contract businesses, guarantees for heavy industry, and investment in biorefining could ease short and long term fuel pain in WA, according to the state's peak business group.

Reform of Western Australia's century-old water rights laws are unlikely to happen in this term of government, Water Minister Don Punch says, but it is on the cards.

North West business owners and residents have had little reprieve from rising insurance costs.

Finmec has traversed a boom-and-bust economy to emerge as a healthy, growing business that gives back to its community.

A publican and former gold executive wants to rebuild a scandal-plagued Spanish resort in the Perth Hills and use some of its land for a hemp-focused industrial estate.

The Ord has been ripe with crop experimentation to make use of its vast water resource since the 1960s.

The University of Western Australia is considering establishing a tertiary education and research campus in Karratha.

Jack McGinn speaks to Tom Zaunmayr about Business News' recent most influential feature.

The scale up of new technology to improve resources sector productivity needs more industry and government support, according to a mining services veteran.

Two more major events in regional WA have been cancelled due to the high price of fuel and flood damage from ex-tropical cyclone Narelle.

OPINION: The three main political contenders for WA's most economically important seat are lining up their campaigns for 2029.

Stakeholders are moving ahead with a plan to make the Pilbara ground zero for clean maritime fuels.