North-West

The proponent behind two new hospitality venues in Port Hedland has walked away from both projects due to time and cost blowouts, and will look to invest in Perth instead.

Miners have been warned Pilbara infrastructure will need to be re-engineered to account for increasing frequency and severity of storms.

German salt giant K+S Salt has pulled the pin on its Pilbara salt play nearly one decade after beginning work to bring the major project online.

BHP will demolish the new accommodation wing of a historic portside Port Hedland hotel which the miner purchased in 2018.

Backers of a $1.6bn Pilbara ammonia project are pursuing a deal with Woodside to use the proposed Angel Carbon Capture and Storage hub.

Prudent management and first mover status have enabled Kuuwa Rentals to provide healthy returns for its native title body owner.

From serving up meals on The Bachelorette to a shipping container diner, Zach Green’s food career has led to new opportunity in the north-west.

The Pilbara has had few generational business empires to crow about. That is beginning to change.

Nonogenerian Arnold Carter is among the last people who remember Port Hedland before iron ore. His business journey has taken him from filling Lang Hancock’s plane to championing the town’s history.

Six years after the Pilbara Kimberley University Centres was established, the hub-and-spoke education provider has grown to the far reaches of the north-west.

As traditional owners ramp up efforts to limit groundwater abstraction in the Pilbara, two projects backed by native title groups seek to provide solutions.

The rise of Karratha mining services provider KBSS Engineering is a testament to the importance of a local focus and willingness to take risks.

Rising costs have scuppered a City of Karratha-backed apartment project it had hoped would help address the Pilbara’s housing shortage.

The federal government won’t commit to stationing more defence personnel permanently in the north-west as it pours millions of dollars into military base upgrades.

Despite the development hype around green projects, the pipeline of traditional resources developments shows mining is still king.

Planning is under way to enable the Pilbara’s landside logistics industry meet demand as the region’s industrial cargo trade grows.

As Pilbara publican Bart Parsons calls final drinks at his first watering hole, he is drawing up plans for two new venues in Port Hedland.

A proposed $4.4 billion iron processing plant could strengthen the business case of other major Pilbara projects.

Traditional owners have put forward their plan to turn Koolan Island in the Kimberley into a cultural tourism hub once iron ore mining ceases.

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A Karratha accommodation village has a new part-owner and a fresh three-year contract to provide lodgings for Woodside’s workforce.

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City of Karratha Mayor Dan Scott has urged the state government to help with the housing “heavy lifting” as the local government mulls a $21 million apartment proposal.

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.

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

A Pilbara ammonia upstart has struck a deal with Pilbara Ports to probe exporting ammonia from the Port of Dampier.

The state government will begin building another desalination plant in the Pilbara by the end of the decade to ease pressure on the region’s aquifers.

Concern is growing about water use in Australia’s economic powerhouse, with another water-intensive industry on the way.

A north-west university hub will set up shop in Kununurra by mid-2025 under a federal government program to improve access to tertiary education in regional Australia.

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.

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.

Seafood giant Tassal has won traditional owner support for its barramundi farm expansion plan off the Kimberley coast.