Tom Zaunmayr

Australian and US armed forces are spending big and spruiking grand plans for defence infrastructure and presence.

Public sector union boss Rikki Hendon has been picked to lead Western Australia’s trade unions peak body following the resignation of Owen Whittle.

Low water triggers at an aquifer critical to the Pilbara’s development have been breached, according to Traditional Owners, due to water abstraction and low rainfall.

Big infrastructure projects aside, the state government has lined up a host of health, policing and education developments in the north-west.

An established residential cohort is one feature common to all the best open-air retail and cafe precincts.

Tom Zaunmayr and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the state of some of Perth’s most prominent retail strips.

Carnarvon’s banana co-operative has spent the past two decades finding creative ways to turn its growers’ discards into profit.

The boss of a company mired in years of approvals delays for a project in Perth’s north-east says the state should look to global examples for ideas to improve efficiency.

The number of Indigenous businesses contracted for work has grown 20 per cent in the past year, according to fresh analysis by Supply Nation.