Tom Zaunmayr

A plan to pipe desalinated seawater from Esperance to Kalgoorlie would be revived by the Nationals WA to ease the outback city’s water woes, if elected in March.

Fortescue has lobbed a $254 million offer to snap up ASX-listed junior Red Hawk Mining, owner of a greenfields iron ore project neighbouring the Andrew Forrest-led miner's Solomon operations.

OPINION: It was a better week for the Liberal and National parties in WA, but Labor still looked much more polished as its charges rolled out a heap of fresh election commitments.

Heavy rain flooded a railcar dumper, cut off access roads, and stopped trains on Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore network.

OPINION: Curbs on power, leadership certainty and hard resets will be front-and-centre after the March state poll.

Backers of a proposed $4 billion Pilbara iron plant have warned approval delays would likely see the project built in another country.

A consumer lobby group wants to see a reinsurance pool’s cash reserves used to beef up mitigation and reduce insurance premiums in northern Australia.

BHP's efforts to bolster capacity at its Pilbara port operations are paying off, but the price paid for its ore has fallen sharply.

Sam Jones and Tom Zaunmayr discuss Capel's push to become an agribusiness precinct.

The South West shire has hatched a plan to attract a wide range of agricultural industries to the district

Mining giant BHP has applied to demolish Port Hedland’s Pier Hotel and is weighing up how to pay homage to the notorious watering hole.

OPINION: On the campaign this week, Roger Cook became psychic-in-chief, Libby Mettam had a shocker, and Shane Love stood in a field. The policy debate focused on regional affairs.

WA’s grain king John Nicoletti is believed to have emerged with a large portion of his former Merredin Farms portfolio, which has been broken up among six buyers.

Genesis Minerals capped off a stellar quarter with record gold production, a hefty financial boost, and the early restart of its Laverton mill.

Business News understands Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company and PenAgri have offloaded the 80,000-hectare Merredin Farms to a host of Wheatbelt farmers.

Backers of a $35 million race track planned on Perth’s south-eastern fringe are a step closer to getting the long-mooted course off the ground.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s response to the latest abattoir closure in WA has gone down like a lead balloon with the sheep industry, according to Nationals senate hopeful Paul Brown.

WA Premier Roger Cook has promised to address the government’s exacerbation of regional rental market woes with a $104 million fund to build more government staff housing.

A sand miner constrained by port infrastructure woes in Kwinana last year has shipped its first cargo from Bunbury.

A US-backed Pilbara manganese company is on the cusp of tripling the capacity of its mine to process minerals destined for America’s largest vehicle maker.

The WA Nationals would move the state’s agriculture agency to Northam under a $320 million commitment should the country party win the March state election.

Civil engineering firm Ertech has won a $30 million contract to build a new industrial park in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

OPINION: Minerva Foods' handling of the closure of both of its WA abattoirs has left communities in the dark, shareholders none-the-wiser, and an industry with major headaches.

The first biodiesel-fueled bulk carrier to make the voyage between China and the Pilbara has arrived at anchor outside the Port of Port Hedland.

The United States’ largest oil company claims Andrew Forrest damaged its reputation through his charity’s campaign against plastic polymers and Fortescue’s efforts to reduce fossil fuel use.

Brazilian agribusiness giant Minerva Foods has shut down the Tammin abattoir and has gone to ground about the future of the company’s operations in Australia.

The Shire of Esperance wants the state government to incentivise developers, get out of private rentals and fund a workforce village to alleviate the town’s housing shortage.

Respected business and political consultant Clint Ford has died aged 48.

Local governments in WA are rejecting a campaign to suspend COVID vaccinations, but a handful of interstate districts have backed the move.

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has submitted plans for its next big Pilbara iron ore project to ring in the new year.

The Pilbara’s iron ore miners have been left waiting longer than expected for their emissions-busting battery electric locomotives to arrive.

Sam Jones and Tom Zaunmayr discuss Bankwest's transition to the Commonwealth Bank banner.