Tom Zaunmayr

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the state of freight networks in Western Australia.

A potential new precinct could home about 1000 people in a rapidly-growing South West town near Margaret River.

Myriad issues are crippling WA's road freight network. It is leaving truckies with hefty damage bills, towns with no produce and governments with huge headaches.

A WA invention using silkworms to fix perforated eardrums is nearing human trials having been buoyed by promising pre-clinical tests.

A Western Australian abattoir reopened last year will shut its doors in a major blow to south coast sheep farmers.

Among the huge list of council hopefuls is the usual swag of business people, community heroes, colourful characters and eyebrow-raising pitches which make elections great.

The Western Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed a recount to replace disgraced MP James Hayward will be held in September.

Construction of a long-awaited marine support base at Broome Port will begin this year after securing the final piece of its funding puzzle.

The Shire of Broome has challenged the state government and industry to follow its footsteps and build new homes for staff instead of leasing from the town’s tight rental market.

Ground could soon break for WA’s first surf park, and its owners are working to bring world class surfers and musicians to the venue.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the growth of a tourism industry in the Pilbara at the hands of Ngarluma and Yindibarndi man Clinton Walker.

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.