Tom Zaunmayr

A popular beachside cafe in northern WA is on the hunt for a new site after having its power supply from a Commonwealth defence base cut off.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss efforts by Space Angel to establish a spaceport in remote Western Australia.

The boss of a junior Goldfields explorer has encouraged fellow explorers to back their instinct after proving disappointing assay results for a lithium prospect had been bungled.

The Eucla coast’s sparse landscape hides epic caves, an old telegraph station, and WA’s only wombat population. It could also be home to WA's first spaceport.

A Perth-based startup will chart out a study to sequester carbon from Kwinana’s industrial plants offshore in a bid to reduce environmental impact from the 7 million tonnes of emissions generated in the area each year.

The first major onshore mine in the west Kimberley has processed its first ore several weeks ahead of schedule and below budget.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the results of the recent local government elections in major regional areas.

Naming rights for the state’s three emergency rescue helicopters have gone to tender in a $3.75 million move which could see the deal change hands for the first time in two decades.

Airbnbs are pumping more than $1.1 billion into Western Australia’s economy and creating 7,200 jobs, according to a fresh report dropped as government intervention hangs over the sector’s head.

A WA industry-backed robotics consortium has launched an academy to train a new generation of Australian and Kiwi space mission experts.

Technology developed for Western Australia’s mines and gas platforms will play a crucial role in building living quarters on the moon for NASA’s US$93 billion Artemis program.

Ousted Delta Lithium boss David Flanagan has taken a cheeky swipe at mining billionaires Gina Rinehart and Chris Ellison one month after leaving the junior company.

A pitch to bring some of the world’s foremost space mission experts to WA by Dutch geoscience firm Fugro has received a $5 million boost from the state government.

For years, the Danes have shown how good life can be when your default position with strangers and government is trust.

Council elections in WA’s regions could throw up some surprises.

The WA government is standing by its controversial decision to relocate the $1.8bn maternity hospital to Murdoch despite strong condemnation by WA’s most experienced clinicians.

Single homes will be able to be built and modified without the approval of councils under fresh measures introduced as part of the state government’s major planning shake-up.

A proposed electric vehicle road user charge in WA is likely to be powered down after the High Court of Australia found a Victorian equivalent of the tax to be unconstitutional.

Millions of dollars collected from speed cameras in WA are being spent without appropriate ministerial oversight and with inadequate guidance as to where funds would be best directed.

Isabel Vieira and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the senior journalist's experience renting amid Broome's rental crisis.

With a dream job and a decent wage you would think life was set up. But the state of WA's rental market has left many in the middle class on the brink of homelessness.

Margaret River wine will be fermented on the ocean floor under a new trial led by a WA abalone company and French underwater winery innovator

A new bridge spanning the Martuwarra Fitzroy River will be opened by the end of the year, more than six months ahead of schedule.

Three local government election candidates are vying to become the first Aboriginal person to lead their Western Australian councils next weekend.

A sprawling 2.9 million-hectare Kimberley pastoral empire owned by a Chinese property mogul has hit the market one year after rumours first surfaced of its impending sale.

WA insurer RAC has unveiled its $70 million plan to transform Coral Bay’s Ningaloo Reef Resort in what it describes as one of the most significant tourism projects in the state’s history.

Coral Bay’s beachfront hotel has closed as its owners embark on a $55 million resort redevelopment due to open just in time for the April 2025 school holidays.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the challenges facing Indigenous teens in the Mid West.

Nyunggai Warren Mundine has singled out the exodus of Aboriginal stockmen from pastoral stations as one of the drivers of welfare dependency.

A list of confronting issues compiled by Indigenous teens in the state's Mid West has laid bare the need for change amid a bitter Voice debate

Western Australia’s valuer-general has begun a major overhaul of convoluted pastoral rents to build a new valuation leaseholders can work out with “basic mathematics”.

WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has delivered a stunning rebuke of commentary suggesting she does not support the live export sector, in a passionate speech that earned her praise from what was expected to be a tough crowd.