Alannah MacTiernan

A collaboration among WA's leading research bodies will be created as part of a $25 million investment into growing agricultural research and development in the state.

Alannah MacTiernan has returned from promoting WA’s green hydrogen potential in Europe more confident than ever the state can develop the industry, including manufacturing electrolysers.

The Sweeter Banana Co-operative and Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative will expand their operations after obtaining $2.55 million in loans from the state government.

New federal Nationals leader David Littleproud wants to team up with Mark McGowan to fight a live sheep export ban.

BP will take the lead on what is touted to become one of the world's largest renewable energy hubs, after the oil and gas giant took a stake in the Asian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara.

Wide Open Agriculture has cut the ribbon on a new pilot-scale facility designed to convert lupin into a plant-based protein developed with Curtin University.

The state government is forging ahead with its bid to rapidly transform Western Australia into a renewable energy powerhouse, but questions remain about the practicalities of the shift.

The Shire of Ashburton is hoping state and federal government funds can help establish it as a regional hub.

Alannah MacTiernan has fiercely defended her comments about the threat of foot and mouth disease, amid claims they were “out-of-touch” and calls for her sacking.

Premier Mark McGowan has thrown his support behind his cabinet ministers as the government faces criticism on a number of fronts.

The McGowan government has committed $10 million to a renewable hydrogen fuel project being driven by Woodside Energy's H2 Perth.

A syndicate of owners including Alannah MacTiernan sold the building to Hesperia director Judd Dyer for $2.15 million.

National Farmers' Federation boss Tony Mahar says state and federal governments are not doing enough to alleviate staffing shortages, leaving the industry searching for 150,000 workers.

Posco's plan to build a hot briquetted iron plant in Port Hedland is advancing, while other South Korean businesses are weighing WA hydrogen investments, according to Alannah MacTiernan.

The Aboriginal business sector in the Goldfields has been a poor cousin to the Pilbara but is starting to develop.

The federal government has chipped in another $5 million to get Engie's green hydrogen under way, after costs lifted.

BP and Fortescue Future Industries are among six companies selected for land at the state government’s planned Oakajee green hydrogen precinct.

Stalwart Labor Party minister Alannah MacTiernan has announced her resignation.

Veteran politician Alannah MacTiernan has announced she'll call time on her career at the end of this year.

Senior editor Mark Pownall explains what makes a commercially successful biotechnology business in WA.

Australian grain export giant CBH Group has purchased a 105 hectare site at Avon Industrial Park to support the company's goal to double total monthly export capacity.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Clough, Mrs Macs, BGC, a film studio in Malaga, Alannah MacTiernan, industrial relations, Liberal Party WA, Sharon Warburton and WA’s biggest accountants.

Development of a cotton gin in northern WA is set to proceed after ASX company Namoi Cotton, NSW wheat grower Ron Greentree and the federal government backed the project.

The premier has rallied around the state’s corrective services minister amid damning reports of restraining practices used at Banksia Hill Detention Centre.

Richard Wilson’s resignation as the Liberals’ WA president more than a year after an internal party review makes clear the reasons for the 2021 wipe-out remain.

Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.

Technip has been picked for front-end engineering and design work at a planned 10 megawatt green hydrogen project in Northam.

Up to 1 per cent of energy on WA’s main electricity network will be drawn from renewable hydrogen as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the sector’s regulatory framework.

Clough’s collapse into voluntary administration could set back a planned $6.4 billion urea project in the Pilbara by months, Regional Development Minister Alannah MacTiernan has said.

Dave Kelly has confirmed he will resign as minister, claiming the premier asked him personally to step aside to make way for more women in cabinet.

ANALYSIS: Factional interests, ambitious backbenchers and demographic representation loom as key considerations for the premier as he mulls over who to promote to cabinet this month.

Mark McGowan's cabinet appears set for a significant reshuffle tomorrow after replacements were today named for two outgoing ministers.

Today's cabinet makeover includes big jobs for new ministers, significant shifts for senior government figures but, notably, no changes to the premier's substantial workload.

Whoever replaces Alannah MacTiernan in parliament may not be seated for another fortnight with a suspended party member facing criminal charges firming as a likely candidate.

There is nothing particularly unusual about a property owner wanting to connect separate parcels of land.

Former regional development minister Alannah MacTiernan will lead a fresh probe to address shortcomings in telecommunications services in regional Australia.

Cheap gas and renewable hydrogen are central to a global industrial giant’s proposal to build a green steel manufacturing plant in Western Australia’s Mid West.

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.

Alannah MacTiernan has stressed the importance of building supply chains outside of China’s grasp after lending her expertise to a deal executed with a Japanese heavyweight.

A fledgling rare earths company hopes its outback Western Australian claypan can break China’s stranglehold on the global rare earths supply market.