Alannah MacTiernan has stressed the importance of building supply chains outside of China's grasp after lending her expertise to a deal executed with a Japanese heavyweight.
A Pilbara cattle station will build a 10,000-head feedlot in a move it expects to bolster the region's status as a global premium boxed Wagyu beef supplier.
Cheap gas and renewable hydrogen are central to a global industrial giant's proposal to build a green steel manufacturing plant in Western Australia's Mid West.
Former regional development minister Alannah MacTiernan will lead a fresh probe to address shortcomings in telecommunications services in regional Australia.
Whoever replaces Alannah MacTiernan in parliament may not be seated for another fortnight with a suspended party member facing criminal charges firming as a likely candidate.
Today's cabinet makeover includes big jobs for new ministers, significant shifts for senior government figures but, notably, no changes to the premier's substantial workload.
ANALYSIS: Factional interests, ambitious backbenchers and demographic representation loom as key considerations for the premier as he mulls over who to promote to cabinet this month.
Clough's collapse into voluntary administration could set back a planned $6.4 billion urea project in the Pilbara by months, Regional Development Minister Alannah MacTiernan has said.
Up to 1 per cent of energy on WA's main electricity network will be drawn from renewable hydrogen as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the sector's regulatory framework.
Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.
Richard Wilson's resignation as the Liberals' WA president more than a year after an internal party review makes clear the reasons for the 2021 wipe-out remain.
The premier has rallied around the state's corrective services minister amid damning reports of restraining practices used at Banksia Hill Detention Centre.
Development of a cotton gin in northern WA is set to proceed after ASX company Namoi Cotton, NSW wheat grower Ron Greentree and the federal government backed the project.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Clough, Mrs Macs, BGC, a film studio in Malaga, Alannah MacTiernan, industrial relations, Liberal Party WA, Sharon Warburton and WA's biggest accountants.
Australian grain export giant CBH Group has purchased a 105 hectare site at Avon Industrial Park to support the company's goal to double total monthly export capacity.
Posco's plan to build a hot briquetted iron plant in Port Hedland is advancing, while other South Korean businesses are weighing WA hydrogen investments, according to Alannah MacTiernan.
National Farmers' Federation boss Tony Mahar says state and federal governments are not doing enough to alleviate staffing shortages, leaving the industry searching for 150,000 workers.
Alannah MacTiernan has fiercely defended her comments about the threat of foot and mouth disease, amid claims they were “out-of-touch” and calls for her sacking.
The state government is forging ahead with its bid to rapidly transform Western Australia into a renewable energy powerhouse, but questions remain about the practicalities of the shift.
Wide Open Agriculture has cut the ribbon on a new pilot-scale facility designed to convert lupin into a plant-based protein developed with Curtin University.
BP will take the lead on what is touted to become one of the world's largest renewable energy hubs, after the oil and gas giant took a stake in the Asian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara.
The Sweeter Banana Co-operative and Geraldton Fishermen's Co-operative will expand their operations after obtaining $2.55 million in loans from the state government.
Alannah MacTiernan has returned from promoting WA's green hydrogen potential in Europe more confident than ever the state can develop the industry, including manufacturing electrolysers.
