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.
Mineral Resources has bought a nearly 10 per cent stake in newly listed Kali Metals, just days after the aspiring lithium miner made its stock market debut.
Residential builder Opus Homes has been hit with a wind-up bid from unhappy customers following a dispute over their North Coogee home, which needs to be demolished.
The Bremer Bay Resort and the historic Freemasons Hotel in Geraldton are among the half a dozen country pubs and motels poised to change hands after hitting the property market.
The multi-million dollar Cable Beach foreshore redevelopment project has progressed after the local government picked CMA Contracting as the preferred tenderer.
Western Power has been fined $80,000 after pleading guilty to failing to ensure network safety, after confessing it was aware of the issue that caused the Wheatbelt bushfire.
Perth-based lithium miner Core Lithium’s shares have taken a dive after the company announced it was considering temporarily curtailing mining operations.
Engineering services company Lycopodium has won a $100 million contract for work on FG Gold’s project in Sierra Leone, building on its relationship with the African gold hopeful.
Fortescue has pushed back its final investment decision for its proposed green hydrogen and ammonia project in Brisbane, saying it has “more work to do”.
An Albany real estate agent has been fined after telling a homeowner she could live in a mud brick dwelling deemed uninhabitable by the local government authorities.
The proposed class action lawsuit against Perth builder BGC is set to commence in the new year with thousands of delay hampered homeowners having registered.
Billabong Gold- owned by Catalyst Metals backed by Gina Rinehart- has been fined half a million dollars over two workplace injuries at a mine in the Mid West.
Junior miner Metals Australia has appointed mining executive Paul Ferguson as chief executive to lead the development of its exploration projects in WA and Canada.
BCI Minerals has secured a syndicated facility agreement for its Mardie salt project near Karratha, with nearly $1 billion locked in for the under-construction asset.
Quintis Forestry's entity Sandalwood Properties Limited has moved to wind-up 10 of its financially troubled plantation investment schemes after facing challenging market conditions.
ASX-listed Monash IVF Group is set to acquire a majority interest in reproductive care clinic Fertility North under a $12 million deal, growing its foothold in the Perth market.
Global lithium major SQM has moved on more lithium assets in Western Australia after striking a $10 million deal to acquire a stake in Novo Resources’ Pilbara tenements.
Gina Rinehart’s S.Kidman & Co has bought Rossi Boots in its second splash into the Australian fashion market just weeks after picking up iconic brand Driza-Bone.
Fortescue will spend $1.4 million under an enforceable undertaking reached with WorkSafe to address inappropriate workplace behaviours in the mining industry.