Tom Zaunmayr

Port Hedland councillors have passed a no confidence motion in Town Mayor Peter Carter, delivering a scathing assessment of his accountability, transparency and leadership

About 10,000 jobs and $1.8 billion worth of investment is at risk if Australia’s nickel industry collapses, fresh figures unveiled today reveal.

Private equity firm Resource Capital Funds has hired Anna Shave to co-lead an innovation fund focused on mining companies and the energy transition.

A rising Peel hospitality business will reopen Pinjarra’s historic Edenvale Homestead tea rooms this month.

The boss who revitalised a flailing Broome resort into an award-winning business has handed the reins over as he prepares for a new role in mining.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the positive aspects of activism.

Activism has changed WA for the better, but a new breed of green extremists is driving anti-activism sentiment to new levels

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA is calling for battery metal support and a close look at the federal government's sweeping policy agenda ahead of the 2024-25 budget.

The Nurses and Midwives WA party will take a wide-ranging policy agenda to the state election likely to encompass housing, crime and road safety.

Curfews imposed by local governments are among the constraints affecting freight productivity by as much as 20 per cent, according to WA’s peak trucking lobby.

The nation’s peak farmers’ lobby group has rebuffed calls from its WA counterpart to sack Federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt over his handling of a stranded livestock vessel.

The federal government expects to open applications for shipping companies to join a national strategic fleet capable of servicing regions impacted by emergencies and national crises mid-year.

Backers of a multi-million-dollar aquaculture precinct mooted for Esperance are hopeful of luring major seafood companies to the greenfields site.

The family behind collapsed building firm Diploma Group has emerged as the developer of a seaside apartment complex in Carnarvon, the first in the north-west town.

A highly respected Indigenous elder, who built bridges between some of the world’s largest miners and traditional owners, has died.

Tom Zaunmayr and Isabel Vieira discuss long-running plans to develop a port in Exmouth.

Former regional development minister Alannah MacTiernan will lead a fresh probe to address shortcomings in telecommunications services in regional Australia.

Western Australian rare earths developer Hastings Technology Metals is looking abroad to eastern Europe to process ore from its mine under construction in the Gascoyne.

After a quiet period, ambitions for a deepwater port in Exmouth have a fresh focus.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the state political ambitions of City of Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas.

There’s work to be done to ensure open books around certain industries’ contribution to the communities in which they operate.

The state government will buy new back-up generators for Kalgoorlie-Boulder to firm up the Goldfields’ contingency power while it works to build more resilience into the system.

City of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas has formally declared his intention to run for Liberal preselection in the Churchlands electorate ahead of the 2025 State Election.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss community spend by WA's major businesses.

The state government will investigate reforming royalty payments to shepherd WA’s ailing nickel industry through a collapsing market spurred by a glut of cheap foreign supply.

The Shire of Esperance is the latest council to join a mounting list of regional towns putting their hand out to the WA government to help fund workers housing projects.

Flooding rains in the Pilbara have hampered operations at BHP’s mammoth Mount Whaleback iron ore mine.

An urgent meeting between battery metal bosses and politicians must result in measures to reduce costs and improve efficiency to stave off further pain in the sector, WA’s peak resources lobby says.

Business News runs the rule over a cross-section of companies to determine how much firms of varying size and industry invest in WA communities.

The doors to Pinjarra’s 158-year-old Exchange Hotel will be thrown open this spring for the first time in 16 years in what the local shire hopes will prove a boon for tourism.

The power plant that supported Kalgoorlie during last week’s power outage was, in 2023, rejected by the state government in favour of its own facility, which tripped when it was needed.

The Goldfields is an obvious place to build a wind farm, according to Energy Minister Reece Whitby, as he begins the task of finding out how the state’s largest outback town was left without power for days.