Tom Zaunmayr

Fortescue expects to be running its Pilbara mining network on green energy by 2028, netting the miner a predicted cost saving of up to $US800 million.

Councils in WA's grain belt want the state to impose bigger setbacks and stronger end-of-life rules on wind farm proponents and let locals decide how to use community funds.

Taiwanese expats Ginger and Steven Lo invested in Karratha's cafe scene as others upped stumps.

Tom Zaunmayr and Sam Jones discuss the 50 most powerful people in the state's North West.

The North West's importance to Australia's economy places the region in a uniquely powerful position.

Vouchers for fixed contract businesses, guarantees for heavy industry, and investment in biorefining could ease short and long term fuel pain in WA, according to the state's peak business group.

Reform of Western Australia's century-old water rights laws are unlikely to happen in this term of government, Water Minister Don Punch says, but it is on the cards.

North West business owners and residents have had little reprieve from rising insurance costs.

Finmec has traversed a boom-and-bust economy to emerge as a healthy, growing business that gives back to its community.

A publican and former gold executive wants to rebuild a scandal-plagued Spanish resort in the Perth Hills and use some of its land for a hemp-focused industrial estate.

The Ord has been ripe with crop experimentation to make use of its vast water resource since the 1960s.

The University of Western Australia is considering establishing a tertiary education and research campus in Karratha.

Jack McGinn speaks to Tom Zaunmayr about Business News' recent most influential feature.

The scale up of new technology to improve resources sector productivity needs more industry and government support, according to a mining services veteran.

Two more major events in regional WA have been cancelled due to the high price of fuel and flood damage from ex-tropical cyclone Narelle.

OPINION: The three main political contenders for WA's most economically important seat are lining up their campaigns for 2029.

Stakeholders are moving ahead with a plan to make the Pilbara ground zero for clean maritime fuels.

Australia's live export industry is facing a double whammy as war in the Middle East restricts shipping channels and forces up the cost of diesel for pastoralists and farmers.

Two water planning experts have urged industrial competitors to work together on future water supply as the state grapples with capacity constraints and environmental concerns.

Australians will need to wait for weeks before fuel-price relief flows through to the bowser under a cut to the fuel excise.

Nearly $10 billion worth of new projects have been added to the North West's impressive list totalling more than $300 billion.

Construction of more than $30 billion of rail linking the North West to Perth and Queensland could unlock Australia's stranded critical minerals assets, a key resources lobby group argues.

Gascoyne growers are bracing for flooding from the region's namesake river after being battered by severe winds and rain from Tropical Cyclone Narelle.

The boss of a Kimberley Aboriginal corporation is hopeful a fresh push to divest a 22-million-hectare lands trust marks a fork in the road for Indigenous self-governance.

The Pilbara's mining sector is on the cusp of witnessing its first strike in three decades as a small group of BHP staff vote to down tools

Traditional owners will gain control of land once earmarked for a major gas plant north of Broome as the state government seeks to clean up a legacy issue.

A museum precinct in Esperance housing artefacts from the Skylab space station is in line for a $30 million refurbishment.

A Beijing-based green steel specialist has warned Australia's hopeful iron ore processors they need a reality check as they wade into a costly and competitive sector.

A lack of fuel has forced organisers to can an annual traditional owner-led festival in Karijini National Park.

WA's energy minister has urged the renewable energy sector to raise its voice against a tide of misinformation at an industry forum in Perth.

Australia's resources industry and Amazon want government agencies to use artificial intelligence used to speed up environmental approvals.

Western Australian miners are mulling altering their fly-in, fly-out rosters to ration fuel as shortages begin to worry the aviation and resources sectors.