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.
Security provider Intelligent Monitoring Group has furthered plans to expand its footprint with the $45 million purchase of sector peer Tyco Australia.
Mining and civil services firm MACA has secured a $850 million contract extension for open pit mining activities at the Gruyere gold mine in the Goldfields.
Land developer Cedar Woods Properties has cut its financial year profit forecast due to construction delays it claims are showing signs of stabilising.
Rare earths hopeful Hastings Technology Metals has secured a potential offtake agreement with a Canadian magnet manufacturer for its Yangbiana project in the Gascoyne.
Costs at global salt producer K+S Group’s Ashburton project near Onslow have blown out by more than $400 million following revised costs and inflationary pressures.
Former premier Colin Barnett, scientists Carol Bower and David Blacker and mining executive Philip Crabb are among the 112 Western Australians recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List for 2023.
Fortescue Future Industries and Tivan are among the five companies to secure land agreements with the Northern Territory government for its energy development precinct.
Gold producer Perseus Mining has delayed making a final investment decision on its Meyas Sand Gold project in Sudan following ongoing conflict in the country.
Beach Energy has plugged and abandoned its Trigg 1 gas exploration well, making it the second target in the Perth Basin to record disappointing results in the past three months.
Residential builder Pride Homes & Developments has entered liquidation after joining the list of collapsed construction companies hit by cost and labour pressures.
Mining services group Perenti has marginally increased its 2023 financial year revenue expectations and has shaved $40 million off its capital expenditure targets.
A property developer has launched legal action against the Public Transport Authority over a block of land in Midland that was compulsorily acquired for use in the Metronet project.
The cost to build Hastings Technology Metals’ Yangibana rare earths project has blown out by 44 per cent to $948 million, with the aspiring miner now opting to stage its development to reduce costs.
The Slatter Group WA is the latest builder to collapse after appointing EY to liquidate the 20-year-old company, which specialised in the education sector.
Mark McGowan will resign as the premier of Western Australia by the end of the week, after revealing he does not have the energy and drive to continue in the role.
Bioenergy company Delorean Corporation has suspended trading in its shares after disclosing it needed to raise more than $2 million to pay a debt owed to the Clean Energy Regulator.
Green ammonia producers Kinara Power and Blue Diamond have progressed lease negotiations for land in the Oakajee Strategic Industrial Area in the Mid West.
Multinational human services provider APM has won a $720 million contract to provide its services in the UK but declared its earnings growth was expected to take a hit.
As regulators scrutinise Perth Mint and the state government reviews its ownership, the business has continued to lose market share to rival ABC Refinery.