Business News' inaugural list of those who live or spend much of their year in the north-west and influential policy and investment decisions in the region.
A Pilbara cattle station will build a 10,000-head feedlot in a move it expects to bolster the region's status as a global premium boxed Wagyu beef supplier.
A $5 billion desalination plant providing water to green industries in the Pilbara is on the cards under a partnership formed between a French utilities giant and traditional owners.
Pilbara-focused Red Hawk Mining will raise $12.5 million in order to advance operations at its flagship Blacksmith iron ore project, 70 kilometres north-west of Tom Price.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Yaya Ouattara, Caigen Wang, Maree Arnason, Derek La Ferla, Ben Morton, Darryl Cuzzubbo, Gavin Lockyer, Niamh O'Connor, Anna Shave, Brendon Grylls and Martina Mariano.
Former Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls has joined an iron ore minnow to lead engagement with Pilbara stakeholders as it presses ahead with a new mine.
One of WA's largest Aboriginal corporations says Rio Tinto is not serious in its efforts to modernise a contentious land use agreement, with tens of millions of dollars at stake.
A Perth-based vanadium aspirant chaired by former National Party of Western Australia leader Brendon Grylls is looking for $35 million to list on the ASX.
More than $100 million is believed to be owed by ASX-delisted Vietnam Industrial Investments, as the Perth business which had previously boasted high profile directors is sent into liquidation.
A Brendon Grylls-chaired campaign to improve regional housing affordability through an increase in fringe benefit tax concessions has received backing from a first-term government senator.
With the odds of a second term for the McGowan government shortening by the day, The Nationals are hoping their independence from the Liberals on key issues will get them over the line in the regions.
Alexium International Group has appointed Dr Paul Stenson as non-executive director. Dr Stenson has over 25 years of experience in polymer-related industries.
Mia Davies invoked the memory of US president Teddy Roosevelt to argue for pragmatic and market-based policy decisions at a Business News Policy Briefing today.
OPINION: The idea of forming a new political party to run Senate candidates on a Western Australia-first platform appears to have come to a number of people at the same time.
Investment plans for BHP Billiton's South Flank project can proceed with greater certainty following the defeat of the Nationals WA's proposed iron ore levy hike at the ballot box earlier this month, according to the company's asset president of WA iron ore, Edgar Basto.
Mike Nahan has been voted in unopposed as leader of the WA Liberals after two-term premier Colin Barnett stepped down, while former sports and recreation minister Mia Davies has been voted in as leader of the WA Nationals.
WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls, who was the target of a $2 million mining industry advertising campaign, today conceded he's lost his seat of Pilbara to Labor's Kevin Michel.
Relations between the Western Australian government's alliance partners have hit rock bottom, after the Nationals WA attacked the Liberals over plans to cut $800 million out of its prized Royalties for Regions program, calling it a "final betrayal".
Demanding WA Labor submit election promises to Treasury for scrutiny has proved a potent line of attack for the Liberals this week, as the government tried to change the topic from its preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
ANALYSIS: Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls has attacked the debt reduction strategies of both the Liberal and Labor parties as unrealistic. However, he confirmed that, in the event of a hung parliament after the March 11 election, his party would only work with the Liberals to form a new government.
The Nationals WA have preferenced the Greens ahead of their Liberal alliance partners on the ticket for two upper house regions in next month's state election, including Liberal Agriculture & Food Minister Mark Lewis.
State Treasurer Mike Nahan has put his neck on the line to stop the Nationals WA's proposed mining tax, saying he will resign from the portfolio if a post-election Liberal government does a deal to lift royalties.
SPECIAL REPORT: Many politicians, including senior government ministers, go through their careers as ‘grey' men or women, barely getting noticed and having little impact; the same could never be said of Brendon Grylls.
For evidence that success can sometimes damage a business we need look no further than the political games playing out ahead of next year's state election, with the very real chance Western Australia's biggest iron ore miners will be hit by a $5 per tonne penalty tax because they're too successful.
Australia could become the epicentre of global mining if it had more ambition and more competitive tax policies, says the chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto.
The state government has used its latest cabinet meeting in Midland today to announce four deals worth $67 million to support future medical, university and residential projects in the former railway workshops area.
ANALYSIS: Green shoots are popping up in WA as improved conditions for iron ore and gold, and strong prospects for the upcoming crop harvest, offer sources for optimism.
The proposal from Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls to increase the royalties paid by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton is not as ‘out there' as it sounds. I say this not as a socialist, but as a capitalist who, as a resident of Western Australia, is an indirect part owner of the state's iron ore reserves.
