Sam Jones joined Business News in April 2024, covering tech, innovation, cybersecurity, accountants, Asian engagement and federal politics.
Prior to joining Business News he spent five years living and working in WA's North West.
The first two years were spent in South Hedland covering a broad range of topics including local and state politics, small business, Aboriginal affairs, sports and human interest stories.
Mr Jones then moved to Broome, where he took the position of Northern Papers Editor for Seven West Media and was responsible for producing four weekly newspapers across the Pilbara and Kimberley.
Western Australia is set to receive a record $9.3 billion in GST revenue for the 2026-27 financial year, a large boost which experts said vindicated controversial reforms in 2018.
One of Australia's largest privately owned ICT managed services provider Kinetic IT has revealed Dean Langenbach will take the reins after two years leading NRI Australia and New Zealand.
A world-first antipsychotic injectable drug developed in Perth will accelerate its path to market after the company behind it, Reliis, was acquired by a Melbourne biotechnology developer.
The tax office is pursuing the founder of collapsed builder Modco Residential, Yusuf Khan, over almost $7 million in alleged unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
Leederville-based aged care technology developer InteliCare Holdings will have its AI platform installed in 22 Victorian aged care facilities as part of an $8.8 million deal.
Australian companies with a clean compliance history are being targeted by black market operators and stolen to aid in fraud, according to a leading Perth accounting firm.
Surveillance software firm icetana AI Limited has expanded an agreement with one of its longest-running customers, Emirati shopping mall giant Majid al Futtaim Properties, in a deal worth $2.1 million.
Australia's consumer watchdog has warned upgrades to major national airports, including Perth, run the risk of driving airfares skyward in the years ahead.
Shares in DUG Technology have lifted by over 10 per cent following the release of strong financials, and despite its ongoing US court action with a subsidiary of oil and gas giant Shell.
Gaming billionaire Laurence Escalante faced court to amend his bail and suppression order in a bid which could see him gain access to his private jet, while also being hit with nine fresh charges.
WA high-performance computing company DUG will fight a hefty legal bill lobbed at it by a Texas court, after it was found to have breached a supplier contract with a Shell subsidiary.
The first inflation data post-Federal government energy subsidy has revealed a 16-month-high underlying inflation reading, but experts still expect just one more cash rate rise this year.
US Senator Tim Kaine has pressed the Department of Defence on what it's doing to help Australia process critical minerals, and called for more support to move away from Chinese processing.
WA-based arts non-profit FORM leveraged the launch of its new exhibition to prove 22 years of cultural investments had delivered tangible financial returns for the state's economy.
Plans for a $5 million mixed use development on a side street parallel to Scarborough Beach Road in the middle of Mount Hawthorn have been approved by the development authority.
Murdoch University chancellor Gail McGowan has become WA's third local government monitor, appointed to the City of South Perth to address issues in the council.
Western Australians will have more access to Tip Top white sliced bread after the company behind it, Tip Top Bakeries, opened a $130 million state-of-the-art bakery line in Canning Vale.
Sam Jones, Mark Pownall, Gary Adshead and Claire Tyrrell discuss the dim sum scandal; a $900k government severance package; ECU Mount Lawley's future and other major news of the week.
Henderson-based shipbuilder Austal has been awarded a $4 billion contract for the construction of eight landing vessels for the Australian Defence Force.