Isabel Vieira joined Business News in 2022, co-leading breaking news and covering resources (critical minerals), insolvencies and corporate finance.
She was project editor on the 2024 edition of Business News' Power 500 publication and regularly features on the At Close of Business podcast. Ms Vieira won an Alliance Area of Business Publishers award in 2024.
Ms Vieira previously spent two years in the Great Southern, first at the independent Great Southern Weekender and then at Seven West Media'sNarrogin Observer and Albany Advertiser newspapers.
She studied at Curtin University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.
Former Nicheliving customers have so far been paid out more than $30 million worth of taxpayer-underwritten insurance claims, as new builders take on the unfinished work.
Global Lithium director Dianmin Chen has rubbished Chinese control concerns he says were raised behind his back to the nation’s foreign ownership umpire, speaking after the AGM.
Chris Ellison has paid the $3.8 million penalty handed down in the fallout from his tax evasion scandal as Mineral Resources’ search for a new chairman draws out until June.
Two ex-bank bosses have taken up key roles with Fortescue and BHP, with the Big Australian appointing former National Australia Bank chief Ross McEwan as its new chairman.
Bayswater Mayor Filomena Piffaretti says she has zero confidence in the property developers moving on the Galleria Shopping Centre without imposed timelines on the delayed redevelopment.
Both WA Labor and the WA Liberals have pledged to spend tens of millions of dollars on significant healthcare upgrades in an effort to reduce emergency department pressure.
Shane Love launched the official start of the Nationals WA election campaign with a fiery prod at the ‘political duopoly dominating the state’, as the party prepares to contest metropolitan seats.
Contractors at BP’s now mothballed Kwinana biofuels facility have remained tight-lipped on the impact of the oil and gas giant’s decision which cost 200 jobs.
The takeovers umpire has likened Global Lithium Resources' boardroom brawl to shareholder activism rather than a covert attempt to take control of the critical minerals explorer.
A Perth jetski and quad bike dealership has stumbled in liquidation, calling in experts Greg Prout and David Hurt from WA Insolvency Solutions to sift through its affairs.
The state’s major grain handler has called time on the latest harvest after 20.3 million tonnes of grain was delivered, marking the third largest haul in CBH’s history.
An extension of the Super Pit’s mine life has been waved through by the environmental watchdog but with strict noise and dust rules for the operation on the edge of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
An impending impairment against IGO’s ailing Kwinana refinery and end of mine life challenges at its last standing nickel asset took the shine off the critical minerals miner’s financials.
Corporate finance firm Euroz Hartleys is anticipating net profit of $6.25 million for the first half after capitalising on a “brief but strong” wave of equity capital market work.
Bill Beament-helmed Develop Global is mulling selling a 20 per cent stake in its Woodlawn project ahead of bringing the mothballed asset back into production.
Pilbara Minerals recorded a small uptick in the price for the key battery material last quarter, which its chief says underscores confidence a price floor may have been found for the battered commodity.
Fortescue has lobbed a $254 million offer to snap up ASX-listed junior Red Hawk Mining, owner of a greenfields iron ore project neighbouring the Andrew Forrest-led miner's Solomon operations.
IGO and joint venture partner Tianqi have called tools down on work and activities on the expansion of the troubled lithium hydroxide plant in Kwinana ahead of a forewarned write-down on the asset.
The federal government has tipped $2 billion its clean energy lending agency in an effort to spur investment in the sector and capitalise on the net-zero transition.
More than a dozen Rivers clothing stores across the state will shut shop after a buyer couldn’t be found for division under the troubled Mosaic Brands umbrella.
Property developer Sirona Urban is seeking to bring back its plan to build an apartment tower in South Perth after previously shelving the project due to soaring construction costs.