Jack McGinn

Synergy’s contracts with the world’s largest battery maker CATL will not be impacted by a shock move from the United States Department of Defense to blacklist the Chinese company overnight.

Belmont-based GenusPlus Group has landed an initial $42 million head contractor role for stage one work on TasNetworks’ $950 million northern Tasmanian grid upgrade.

Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators will conduct a thorough investigation of the circumstances which led to a fatal plane crash at Thomson Bay in Rottnest yesterday.

Outgoing Attorney General John Quigley has thrown his support behind his former chief of staff Colleen Egan, after her name was floated as a potential WA Labor candidate in Thornlie.

A bid by RATCH Australia to significantly expand the operating hours at the Worley-operated Kemerton gas peaking power plant has been approved by Environment Minister Reece Whitby.

Main Roads WA will foot a $900,000 bill to build a sign at the South Australia-Western Australia border, after years of controversy surrounding an existing steel structure at the site.

WA Labor’s high-profile Thornlie candidate, Daniel Morrison-Bird, has stepped aside from his position just two months out from the state election.

Premier Roger Cook says a visit by Anthony Albanese this week will not detract from state issues, but the WA Electoral Commission has warned of confusion with two ballots ahead.

Gold Road Resources has reported a 27 per cent quarter-on-quarter hike in the value of its listed investments but remains tight-lipped on whether it will make a move for De Grey Mining.

A plan to build a 490-megawatt wind farm in the Mid West has been put before federal regulators, as its developers push to begin producing energy by 2028.

The state government moved to lock in contractors for the $1.8 billion Women and Babies’ Hospital in December, as it pushes to begin the project before the March election.

The state government revealed a $500 million increase to the state government’s projected operating surplus, while expense growth outstripped revenue growth in the mid-year review.

Flooding has closed Western Power’s Wellington Street office indefinitely, displacing workers as the utility prepares for a peak period across the state’s main electricity grid.

Early work is underway on a $660 million Department of Defence infrastructure program at Exmouth’s Learmonth airbase, with ATCO subcontracted to build an initial worker’s camp.

The WA Liberal Party has made more from donations this financial year than WA Labor, but levies and union fees have the latter’s coffers well ahead in the lead up to the state election.

The Economic Regulation Authority has ticked off a 57 per cent increase to the benchmark reserve capacity price for electricity producers supporting the state’s main grid from 2027.

Vault Minerals will spend $80 million to expand the processing facility at its King of the Hills mine near Leonora by 20 per cent, to more than 6 million tonnes of ore per annum.

Woodside and Chevron have agreed to an asset swap which will shake up gas project ownership in WA, with parts of the North West Shelf and Wheatstone projects and $644 million to change hands.

The state government has spent $716 million with Aboriginal businesses on transport contracts in just over three years, hitting a procurement target two years ahead of deadline.

State Planning Minister John Carey has thrown the weight of his support behind the recently announced WA Planning Commission chair Emma Cole, after scrutiny over her appointment.

ANALYSIS: As MinRes prepares for a future without its founder, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has moved on its gas business and countercyclically acted on an appetite for lithium.

East Perth-based Monford Group has been appointed principal engineering, procurement and construction contractor at the $250 million Glenellan solar farm in New South Wales.

A Chevron-led joint venture has been awarded a greenhouse gas assessment permit next to Barrow Island, where the company operates the Gorgon carbon capture project.

The near-term supply outlook for Western Australia’s domestic gas market has improved this year, but 2028 looms as a critical juncture in the state’s energy future.

The federal government has acknowledged the infrastructure strain facing Perth’s southern coastal corridor, committing to fund three studies into road access at HMAS Stirling.

ANALYSIS: Work in the defence sector is scaling up at Wangara-based diversified contractor Duratec Australia.

Chevron will supply 130 petajoules of gas over 10 years from 2028 to fuel Alcoa’s Western Australian alumina refineries, in a boost for the latter’s operational certainty.

The state’s peak mining lobby body has told a nuclear energy inquiry that the industry is neutral in its stance on energy sources, but stressed the importance of power access for business.

BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside Energy and BlueScope will partner on an electric smelter ironmaking pilot project at Kwinana, as part of the state’s green iron push.

A Broome prison and emissions reduction reporting implementation are among 10 key projects the state has fallen behind on over the last year, a new progress report has revealed.

Investment to the tune of $35 million in the state’s defence industry has led to around 1,000 opportunities for jobseekers to date, according to figures from a WA government report.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a former banking executive and an economics professor to the Reserve Bank board, following a six-month review into monetary policy setting.