Mark Beyer

Efforts to revive manufacturing in WA have been boosted by a $150 million deal between Gemco Rail and Rio Tinto to build 100 iron ore wagons and certain components locally.

Elizabeth Gaines will be paid a $1.2 million salary after taking up a part-time executive director role at Fortescue Metals Group, while Jenn Morris has resigned from the company's board.

One of WA's best-known franchises has come under new ownership after US-based Flynn Restaurant Group bought Pizza Hut Australia.

Fortescue Metals Group has signed an $18 million agreement with the Nyamal people to provide mining equipment for its Iron Bridge magnetite project.

Indigenous business leaders have shared their stories and set an agenda to achieve more progress in the fast-growing sector.

The cost of fixing up the failed Ellendale diamond mine in the Kimberley has risen to $70 million after the state government awarded a major contract for rehabilitation earthworks.

Mining giant BHP has revealed nearly 30,000 current and former staff have lost leave and pay entitlements over the past 13 years in one of Australia’s largest case of employee underpayment.

ANALYSIS: The factional rift that enabled Roger Cook to become Labor leader has parallels with a famous preselection battle during which a young Ben Wyatt defeated union heavyweight Helen Creed.

UPDATED: Roger Cook is poised to become Western Australia’s next premier with Rita Saffioti as deputy premier after Amber-Jade Sanderson withdrew from the leadership race.