North-West

A Pilbara traditional owner group is hoping to foster relationships with users of Pilbara iron ore to gain better involvement in decision-making.

Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara has joined a group of industry and government stakeholders pushing plans for an ammonia ship refuelling hub in the Pilbara.

The state government will fund half of a $1.1 billion Rio Tinto desalination plant in Dampier built to reduce pressure on groundwater sources.

A monitor has been appointed to the Town of Port Hedland one month before an election is held to reinstate a council at the trouble-plagued jurisdiction.

A former executive bureaucrat has been found to have been unfairly dismissed from a Pilbara local government by the state's employment arbiter.

Fortescue's largest proposed Pilbara renewable energy project has been submitted to the state's environmental watchdog for approval.

Maroomba Airlines has won a contract to fly staff to and from the Onslow Marine Support base in the Pilbara.

A $21.4 million early learning centre will be built in Derby through a funding deal inked with the state and federal governments, and Minderoo Foundation.

Traditional owners will raise alleged human rights breaches with the United Nations next month as they ramp up a campaign to clean Australia's most contaminated site.

Construction on a long-awaited MRI facility at Port Hedland's hospital will begin this year.

The new owners of a luxury retreat on Christmas Island are bullish on the remote province's tourism potential as uncertainty surrounds the island's major employers.

Hancock Iron Ore's Mulga Downs project has received the state environmental watchdog's blessing.

Construction of a 12-unit modular build-to-rent complex in Karratha has begun, backed by two local businesspeople.

A traditional owner-backed project has put its hand up to help Water Corporation solve its water supply shortage in Port Hedland.

ANALYSIS: Fortescue has proven itself good at two things: iron ore and putting on a show. The miner is now trying to prove its merits at a third - decarbonising its massive operations

Fortescue's battery electric locomotives have begun trials on the iron ore miner's Pilbara rail network.

Anger is bubbling in the north-west over the state government's decision to let airlines slug them with higher fares when their flights are busy.

A Perdaman-backed solar farm looks set to become the foundation tenant of a traditional owner-backed green energy park near Karratha.

Another hopeful Pilbara ore processor has entered the fray, this time in the form of a Japanese-backed British pelletising firm.

The Pilbara town at the heart of WA's iron ore industry is running out of lots for companies wanting to move in to service new mining and green energy projects.

A processing facility built in Shark Bay will establish a new export avenue for Western Australia's oldest trade, sea cucumbers.

The state government has put feelers out for extra water supply to Port Hedland as the town's existing sources crack under pressure from industrial growth and climate change.

Fortescue has started building the Pilbara's first wind farm, and the first of its own turbines among 5 gigawatts of green energy plants it has mooted for the region.

BHP and Rio Tinto are working on a deal to mine a wedge of land separating two of their ageing iron ore projects in the Pilbara.

An $85 million plan to redevelop an old caravan park at the tip of the Ningaloo Reef into a swanky eco-resort has been significantly scaled back due to political hurdles.

Leaders along Western Australia's World Heritage coast are concerned an influx of anglers targeting snapper could put more pressure on fish stocks in the region.

A group of indigenous corporations in the state's far north has secured a deal with a Chinese state-owned engineering firm to progress their large ammonia project.

South Fremantle brewery Running with Thieves has signed a five-year deal to run a vacated yacht club at Port Hedland's Spoilbank Marina.

National energy infrastructure company APA Group has unveiled plans to build a large renewable energy project in the Pilbara after signing a land use deal.

A Pilbara traditional owner body is pursuing plans to enable up to 5 gigawatts of renewable energy to be built at a new industrial precinct on its country.

The first iron ore railcar assembled in the Pilbara has rolled off the production line ready for use on Rio Tinto's sprawling rail network.

BHP will begin testing next year to determine the severity of an acid leak from the mine which started the Pilbara's lucrative iron ore trade.