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.
Perth-founded internet service provider iiNet is shutting down its email service in a move that is expected to impact thousands of businesses and individuals.
Junior miner CGN Resources has launched an initial public offering to raise up to $10 million to fund exploration in the West Arunta region in northern WA.
Battery metals miner IGO says it has reported its “strongest set of financial results” despite recording an almost $1 billion impairment charge against its acquired assets.
Gold producer Perseus Mining has bolstered its profit by 70 per cent to $476 million after enjoying higher gold prices and increased production in the 2023 financial year.
Firebird Metals has laid down the blueprint to build its Oakover manganese project near Newman at an estimated cost of $123 million after releasing an updated scoping study.
Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA boss Rebecca Tomkinson has drawn synergies between the mining and agriculture sectors as both industries adopt new technologies.
Global services provider APM Human Services has generated net profit after tax of $178 million after anticipating its earnings were going to take a hit earlier this year.
Federal Minister Brendan O’Connor says the previous government’s “addiction” to worker visas is to blame for the decision to cut WA’s allocation of migrant workers by 70 per cent.
Fremantle boutique brewery Running With Thieves has been taken over by administrators who claim it's “business as usual” ahead of a potential restructuring.
UPDATE: Statewide contractor Advanced Traffic Management (WA) allegedly owes more than $10 million to unpaid creditors as the court appoints liquidators to wind up the company.
Iluka Resources has commenced a feasibility study into potentially building a metallisation facility at Eneabba to further its downstream processing potential.
The building industry watchdog will pursue the cancellation of Modco Residential’s builders’ registration following liquidators being appointed to wind up the failed building business.
Perth-based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering Group has won a pipeline of work totaling $90 million from the likes of Rio Tinto and other major mining and construction companies.
Mining tech company Imdex has struck a deal with the state government to become the first industry partner of the recently built Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct.
Persistent inflationary and labour pressures have not waned Macmahon and Perenti's positive outlook as the two mining contractors record earnings growth for the 2023 financial year.
The Federal Court has ruled to wind up failed building venture Modco Residential in insolvency after slamming its lawyer’s attempt to oppose the court action initiated by an unpaid creditor.
Healthcare tech and services company Resonance Health has won a $6.33 million contract from a multinational pharmaceutical company, subject to clinical trial approvals.
Failed building business Modco Residential’s glamorous co-founder Cynthia Lu is claiming she is owed $2.5 million from the collapsed residential building company.