Tom Zaunmayr

The boss of a rapidly expanding Western Australian regional airline wants to unlock Broome’s potential as a home for the Pilbara’s fly-in, fly-out miners.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Nadia Budihardjo about Cossack, a historic ghost town in the Pilbara.

It’s time the bureaucratic mess that has halted progress in a remote WA ghost town is sorted once and for all.

Nadia Budihardjo and Tom Zaunmayr discuss moves in the state's dairy industry.

The owner of WA’s biggest dairy farm is placing his reputation and cash on the line to prove the potential of an autonomous and green production facility.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the state of the iron ore market.

Doubts over the direction of the iron ore price have fostered talk of lean times ahead for the industry.

The state government could be dragged to court by Pilbara traditional owners for failing to clean up Wittenoom’s mountains of deadly asbestos tailings.

A small Perth firm will become one of the first Western Australian companies to build and launch a satellite into space after locking in federal funding.

The founders of a North West brewery will open their fourth venue, lifting the company into the upper echelon’s of Western Australia’s watering hole operators.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss a push to attract superyachts to WA - and the state's readiness to host them.

Yeeda station has been placed on the market two months after its owner fell into administration owing more than $100 million to debtors.

Trying to lure wealthy yacht owners to WA is great, but perhaps we should get our infrastructure in order first.

A $200 million, 26-room mansion to be built for a local architect and inventor in the hills northeast of Perth has been approved by the Shire of Chittering.

Shire of Carnarvon councillors have rubbished a report which found there would be insufficient demand to build a new airport in the Gascoyne town.

WA’s first commercial-scale vertical farm prepares to grow near Mandurah, while a new facility is helping people turn ideas into businesses.

The boss of Australia’s newest uranium miner says populist political leaders are not interested in casting a fair eye over nuclear energy’s potential as part of the nation’s future energy mix.

Wittenoom’s asbestos-laced racetrack and airstrip will not be remediated as part of work to bury the town’s contaminated infrastructure

Exmouth shire president Matthew Niikkula will square off against Perth solicitor Amanda Kailis for Liberal pre-selection in the Pilbara.

WA grains breeder InterGrain will lead a new federal-funded oats research consortium designed to cement Australia’s position as a high quality and valued added oat producer.

A disused tennis club on the Busselton foreshore will be turned into a chocolate factory by the owners of the South West town’s largest brewery.

A South Australian mining tech firm revolutionising the centuries-old method of assaying gold is working to bed down its foothold in the global gold industry.

Wittenoom’s asbestos tailings would cost $200 million to clean up, according to a buried state government report which also details a preferred remediation method

Chinese state-owned companies are “exploiting” Indonesia, US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy says, amid a call for WA’s battery metals miners to lead decarbonisation efforts.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the life and legacy of Maitland Parker.

Traditional owners have hit out at the state government over claims their plans to breath new life into a Pilbara ghost town were beyond the remit of what they had been permitted to do.

Late Banjima elder Maitland Parker’s last fight was to see his Ngurra cleared of the toxic legacy Lang Hancock, CSR and others left behind.

Roger Cook has labelled critics of government support for decarbonisation as ‘losers’ while listing what he wants from the federal govt’s manufacturing act.

The state government will pitch in to rebuild Western Australia’s $18 million wine trade with China following the removal of crippling tariffs.

WA’s largest iron ore miner boosted spend on Indigenous businesses by 35 per cent in 2023 as part of an $8.8 billion outlay across the state.

A standalone disaster recovery agency would be established by The Nationals WA should they win the 2025 state election.

Developers of Guinea’s giant Simandou iron ore mine have agreed to a $US15 billion finance deal to kickstart development of what could one day become the world’s largest mine.