Tom Zaunmayr

Port Hedland is one of several local governments in outback WA progressing ideas to address crippling housing shortages.

Former local government minister Tony Simpson will campaign for better boating facilities, major retailers to set up shop, and more youth entertainment.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the growth in popularity of truffles in Western Australia.

Workers’ accommodation, a spruce up in South Hedland and new childcare facility headline a bold Town of Port Hedland pitch to breathe fresh life into Australia’s export powerhouse.

During WA’s resources boom the Pilbara was known for three things – mining, Red Dog and the beating sun. The remarkable landscape barely rated a mention.

A proposed enterprise agreement covering Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone gas plants has been emphatically rejected as the oil and gas giant’s workers veer closer toward a strike.

The East Kimberley Chamber of Commerce and Industry has detailed the extreme impact to business and residents of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River floods.

Flights from Port Hedland to Bali and Brisbane will resume for the first time since COVID through a new deal between the Town and its airport.

Booming interest in a big box Pilbara business park has spurred a new land release which could net ratepayers $1.75 million.

From cattle stations to burgers, the truffle’s image is getting a working class makeover.

Oysters at a Forrest-backed farm near Carnarvon have been rendered unsellable due to a natural parasite taking hold at the site.

Updated guidance on medicinal cannabis use in the workplace and removal of barriers for industrial hemp production will be pursued by the state government.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed when Australians will vote on constitutional recognition of Indigenous people and a Voice to Parliament

A $3 billion renewable energy deal designed to future-proof Western Australia’s energy grids has been inked between the federal and state governments.

Construction of a new wharf in Dampier to accommodate urea exports and other bulk cargo has gone to tender.

Construction of a sorely-needed workers village in Kalbarri is back to square one, with the state government ending negotiations with the Perth firm penciled in to build it.

Penny Wong and Julie Bishop strolled through Perth's CBD in a show of Indigenous Voice solidarity on Monday after the state's party unity on the vote broke down.

Anthony Albanese has praised the Pilbara’s resources sector for keeping the nation’s schools and hospitals running on a flying visit to Australia’s iron ore heartland.

BP has called on government support to improve infrastructure as it presses toward a final investment decision for its H2Kwinana hydrogen hub next year.

WA government spend on Aboriginal affairs has grown more than 30 per cent since pandemic restrictions limiting access to remote communities and regional areas lifted.

More than 450 workers on Chevron’s Pilbara gas operations have backed industrial action over a pay dispute between unions and the multinational gas giant.

South32's budget has gone into the black off the back of a US$1.3 billion write-down of one of its US projects.

A pay dispute threatening to see most workers on several Pilbara gas platforms down tools has been averted after Woodside and union reps burned the midnight oil to iron out a deal.

WA continues to take one step forward, two step backwards on Aboriginal self-determination

The boss of a waste-to-energy plant being built in Kwinana is adamant it will be operational next year as he talks up the sector’s potential to power WA homes and hospitals.

Carnarvon has emerged as a potential new home for WA’s plantation sandalwood industry after a 15-year trial recorded better growth than experienced at its existing base in Kununurra.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss recent happenings in the state's busy energy sector.

South32 has fired a salvo at the state’s gas producers, accusing them of forcing unreasonable terms on buyers and calling on the state government to enforce a use it or lose policy over gas fields.

Woodside has been given a two-week ultimatum to avoid industrial action by workers on its offshore gas platforms in the Pilbara over a protracted bargaining dispute.

Businesses are being urged to stock up inventories as the prospect of more freight disruptions looms over WA coming into the wet season up north and fire season down south.

A new data centre switched on in Australia’s mining heartland could turbocharge the industry’s investment in automation and remote operation technology.

Last-minute changes to new medium density housing codes have drawn the ire of local governments as stakeholders wait on an updated timeline for the revised code’s implementation.