Tom Zaunmayr

A business case to expand Albany’s hospital would be funded to the tune of $5 million by the Liberal Party should it win next weekend’s state election.

One of Australia’s largest trucking companies has boosted its toehold in Western Australia via the acquisition of a Donnybrook freight company and construction of a Perth logistics hub.

With only weeks until the WA election, a few key seats have political watchers licking their lips and locals trying to read the tea leaves.

The Liberal Party’s pick to represent the western suburbs, Sandra Brewer, has an ambitious long-term project in mind.

WA Labor’s $50 million childcare commitment will give parents flexibility to balance career and family, and ease hip pocket pain, according to the state’s peak social services body.

OPINION: Health was the core focus of Libby Mettam's speech this morning, as the Liberal leader seeks to capitalise on a strong week in the public eye.

A renewable fuel trial at Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations has cut direct emissions in the Pilbara by 10 per cent over a four-week period.

A new electrified bus fleet would be rolled out in Western Australia by 2050 under a WA Labor plan to phase out Transperth’s diesel buses.

Graincorp and Cargill are both planning crushing plants in WA, but BP's move to defer its biorefinery has raised questions about the industry.

Tom Zaunmayr and Isabel Vieira discuss how a copper project could revitalise a Pilbara ghost town.

The WA Nationals would expand Royalties for Regions into Perth’s urban fringe, cut Mandurah from the program and lobby for a federal R4R should the party be able to after this year's elections.

ANALYSIS: Fenix' bid for CZR Resources says a lot about investor confidence in the future of the Pilbara's iron ore industry.

Anax Metals has hatched a plan involving an historic Pilbara mine to crack open the region’s copper industry.

Mid West miner Fenix Resources plans to muscle in on the Pilbara’s iron ore industry via acquisition of billionaire prospector Mark Creasy’s CZR Resources.

Mining services contractor Perenti has put a 13 per cent profit slide down to late debtors and a flat half for contract mining services.

Chicago food business ADM exported its first faba bean bulk cargo out of Esperance on the weekend, and used a loading system usually engaged by the resources industry.

Proponents of a $400 million Exmouth deepwater port have reduced its footprint and begun rattling the tin to bring investors on to progress the project.

OPINION: While much of the talk around green and red tape focuses on big business, it is worth considering what impact it has on the next rung down.

Mark Beyer and Tom Zaunmayr, filling in for Mark Pownall, discuss the biggest news stories of the week, including falling iron ore profits; Yindjibarndi-Fortescue dispute and more.

The WA Nationals would offer a $500 rebate to insurance holders in the North West and create a standalone ministry and agency to oversee the region if they win next month’s state election.

Rio Tinto has foreshadowed a tightening of the purse strings in the Pilbara to account for softening revenue out of its sprawling iron ore operations.

Independent Fremantle candidate Kate Hulett would lobby to bar media moguls from owning gas companies should she be voted into state parliament next month.

Fortescue’s half-yearly profit has more than halved to US$1.55 billion as lower iron ore prices eat into bumper revenues recorded this time last year.

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co will take a US$5.3 billion stake in Rio Tinto’s 6.8 billion tonne Rhodes Ridge iron ore project in the Pilbara.

Three of WA’s largest indigenous businesses have recorded substantial revenue increases, but labour costs are eating into profits.

Unionisation of the Pilbara’s iron ore industry could curtail BHP’s plans to invest in new mines, according to the company’s boss, Mike Henry.

Copper’s importance to BHP’s portfolio is growing as easing Chinese demand for iron ore cuts into the big Australian’s profit.

Disgraced-ex Labor parliamentarian Barry Urban has died in hospital three months after being attacked outside a business he managed in Kelmscott.

A Pilbara manganese developer has looked at Kwinana, Geraldton and Port Hedland as sites to for a possible refinery, while noting import and finance hurdles remain.

A Pilbara native title group pursuing a large renewable energy project and compensation from Fortescue is now the largest indigenous corporation in the state.

OPINION: It was a bad week for the WA National Party, the Liberals went big on health promises and criticism, and Roger Cook was back on the regional campaign trail.

Western Australia’s grain harvest has eclipsed 20 million tonnes for the third time, fuelled by a warm growing season and record plantings.