Isabel Vieira joined Business News in 2022, co-leading breaking news and covering resources (critical minerals), insolvencies and corporate finance.
She was project editor on the 2024 edition of Business News' Power 500 publication and regularly features on the At Close of Business podcast. Ms Vieira won an Alliance Area of Business Publishers award in 2024.
Ms Vieira previously spent two years in the Great Southern, first at the independent Great Southern Weekender and then at Seven West Media'sNarrogin Observer and Albany Advertiser newspapers.
She studied at Curtin University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
Mandurah man Jack Alexander Endersby has been charged with another 11 counts of fraud, now accused of receiving $2.5 million in funds from victims across Australia and Europe.
The 1930s Weeties factory turned family home owned by Tattarang boss John Hartman has hit the market, with the property expected to fetch offers in the mid $4 million range.
Local contractor Macmahon Holdings has notched a $352 million three-year extension to its mining services contract with AngloGold Ashanti over a project in WA.
Wesfarmers’s chemical division managing director Ian Hansen is set to retire later this year, but he will remain chairman on the group’s lithium business.
AVZ Minerals is set to delist from the Australian Stock Exchange after two years of its shares being suspended, as multiple disputes around its project continue.
Historic Perth building company Collier Homes has closed up shop after more than 60 years in business, with liquidators from McGrathNicol appointed to wind up its remaining operations.
West Perth-headquartered mineral sands explorer Base Resources has received a multi-million dollar takeover offer from US critical minerals and uranium producer Energy Fuels.
Battery metals miner Pilbara Minerals said it recorded an uptick in spodumene prices towards the end of the March quarter, while pricing adjustments dented its cash stockpile.
The number of Australian companies hitting the wall is expected to exceed 10,000 by the end of the financial year, underpinned by the collapse of construction firms.
Copper-gold explorer Titan Minerals has inked a joint venture partnership worth more than $185 million with a Hancock Prospecting subsidiary for one of its southern Ecuador projects.
Mining major Rio Tinto has recorded a slight drop in Pilbara iron ore shipments and production citing weather disruptions but has stuck by guidance forecasts.
Perth cyber security startup Sapien Cyber will be wound up after no bids were received to restructure or recapitalise the business, now in the hands of liquidators.
Rio Tinto iron ore chief Simon Trott has been appointed president of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, succeeding BHP's Brandon Craig.
The Malaga Bus Depot is set to be the first existing site to be "substantially converted" to operate a fleet of locally built electric buses, arriving onsite by March 2025.
A new co-ordinated emergency and medical care operations centre will be established in the old Telstra Exchange tower, to be operational by the end of the year.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation is understood to be cutting up to 100 roles from the philanthropic entity following an “organisational redesign”.