Tom Zaunmayr

The Forrest’s cattle herd is swelling but the agricultural arm of the family empire remains loss-making despite managing to cut sales costs in the past year.

Hancock Prospecting has disclosed how much it stumped up to buy a majority stake in the Bunbury Farmers Market.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has netted a bumper $5.57 billion profit after recording one of the highest revenues in the company’s history.

OPINION: Five months out from the state election, it is worth taking stock of what the Labor government has – and has not – done well.

Three more stores are on the cards for a wildly popular noodle restaurant one year after the Chinese franchise was brought to Perth.

Nadia Budihardjo and Tom Zaunmayr discuss WA's biggest exporters.

The WA government is yet to enshrine more visibility in its state agreements with companies, despite being urged to do so two decades ago.

Australia’s biggest miner will put a battery version of Australia’s most popular ute through its paces at the world’s largest bulk export port.

Clive Palmer has resumed his war of words with Attorney General John Quigley after he detailed the measures taken to keep plans to amend a state agreement quiet.

After several barnstorming years for the commodity markets that fuel WA’s economy, headwinds buffeting most sectors are growing.

Western Australia’s newest abattoir is on the market as demand from small producers to service their paddock-to-plate operations intensifies.

Sam Jones and Tom Zaunmayr discuss one of WA's most controversial local government councils.

Record iron ore shipments have driven a healthy profit for Roy Hill and Gina Rinehart, who has once again taken aim at regulation she says is burdening the industry’s prosperity.

Senior BHP staff will be required to work from the office four days a week under changes to come into force next year.

Attorney General John Quigley has opened up on the sensational and secretive drafting of legislation in 2020 designed to shield WA taxpayers from Clive Palmer.

OPINION: On multiple occasions local governments have been questioned by councillors over apologies they never agreed to.

The boss of Western Australia’s largest local bank has backed bricks-and-mortar outlets as his big four competitors shut down branches.

WA's Aboriginal affairs minister has refused a section 18 application for a proposed iron ore mine at the centre of a spat between its backer and traditional owners.

Freight subsidies, social housing, and Stolen Generations reparations have been put on the table by the state’s peak social services body for the 2025-26 state budget.

Higher costs have put a dampener on strong exports from Fortescue’s Pilbara iron ore mines over the past quarter.

Politicians are losing control of policy levers and lack the willpower to enact sweeping tax and policy reforms , according to WA businessman Michael Chaney.

Former WA Premier Mark McGowan has told business leaders to be “relentless” in their pursuit of political influence and backed creation of a new ministerial portfolio

King Charles III road-tested a few WA wines in Canberra and big buyers got a taste of the latest produce made for market in Perth.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Nadia Budihardjo about GeoMoby's invention to improve underground mining operations.

A prospective WA uranium developer has called for a ban on mining to be overturned so the state can provide green energy for power-hungry tech giants in the US.

A small green box which can monitor personnel and equipment in real time without the need for internet has gained a foothold in the Goldfields mining industry.

BP has released new details and pushed back the start date on its proposed $55 billion Pilbara renewable energy project to the end of the decade.

A $400 million proposed green steel mill in Collie has been granted strategic project status by the state government, paving the way for more efficient project facilitation.

BHP is anticipating more stimulus from China’s government to prop up that nation’s ailing property market as the miner increases iron ore supply.

Pilbara ore shipments have remained comparable to 2023, while progress at Simandou has boosted Rio Tinto's Guinea workforce.

Fleetwood has struck a deal with the contractor building Perdaman’s $6.4 billion urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula to house staff at its Karratha workforce camp.

Sales of WA farmland reached record lows in the first half of 2024, while prices dropped from highs reached at the start of the year.