Simone McGurk

North Metropolitan TAFE students will have hands-on experience and training in renewable energy infrastructure after the campus signed an agreement with Horizon Power.

The state government has committed $2.8 billion to the construction of the first stage of Water Corporation’s Alkimos seawater desalination plant.

Victoria Park MP Hannah Beazley has joined Premier Roger Cook's cabinet, while Reece Whitby and David Michael have been given major promotions.

The regional arm of UK defence firm Babcock has signaled its intent to assist the state government’s development and growth of a WA defence industry, as AUKUS deadlines draw closer.

The state government will do away with its blanket public sector wage policy which in recent years saw all public servants offered the same three per cent pay rise, in favour of a sector flexible model.

Andrea Sutton, the former head of Rio Tinto’s majority-owned uranium unit, has been revealed as the new chair of the state-owned Water Corporation.

The government will not go ahead with a plan first announced in 2006 to consolidate legislation governing the state’s water resources management system.

The state has confirmed a consortium of Spanish firm ACCIONA and engineering company Jacobs Group have been selected to design, build and operate the $2.8 billion Alkimos desalination plant.

Western Australia’s nursing union has backed a 3 per cent pay rise, bringing an end to the longest-running pay dispute in the organisation’s 100-year history.

Work has commenced on Water Corporation’s $238.5 million upgrade of its wastewater treatment plant servicing Perth’s southern suburbs.

More than 400 TAFE lecturers undertook industry placements in 2022 and 2023 as part of a program costing $10 million to the state, the government has revealed.

Project scale-backs and mine closures have put jobs in the spotlight but the headline figures only tell part of the story.

Ministerial intervention has led the Australian Federation of Air Pilots to call off strike action planned at Network Aviation later this week as a storm risk builds in the state’s north.

The WA government has pitched for a TAFE-based Clean Energy National Centre of Excellence to be set up in the state, with the hope of winning federal support.

Western Australian mining workers continue to face issues of burnout and sexual harassment despite a general improvement in workplace culture, a landmark report reveals.

The state government believes a $21.5 million investment to support 150 new construction apprenticeships will boost the sector in WA, but concedes there are continued challenges.

Legislative change and the work of an internationally recognised foundation based in WA have changed the conversation in this state.

The Engineering Institute of Technology’s new West Perth campus aims to bolster engineers’ ability to tackle climate change.

The state government has committed almost $80 million in the upcoming budget to upgrade water networks across Western Australia.

Local artists and primary school students have brought colour back to faded Water Corporation pump stations in two Perth suburbs.

The state and federal governments will collectively spend $70.5 million to establish a clean energy skills centre of excellence in WA, to be run with no fixed address.

A tender to build a clean energy research centre in the Pilbara has been put to the market by the state government.

The state government will pour $20 million into creating safer and more reliable water services for the Djarindjin community in northern WA.

West Perth-based Audalia Resources has received ministerial approval for its Medcalf project, located 470 kilometres south-east of Perth.

The construction industry has welcomed an extension of a subsidy program that attracts skilled workers to the sector.

Skilled migrants and apprentices are helping fill personnel shortages in the state’s construction sector.

LNG producer Chevron has tipped more than $68 million into a state government desalination plant at Onslow, as part of a state development agreement over its Wheatstone project.

The state and federal governments are confident the $430 million replacement of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge will remain on budget after its initial price tag was blown out.

A $21.3 million training centre, for students to learn electric vehicle maintenance, has opened at North Metropolitan TAFE Joondalup campus.

The state government has refreshed public sector leadership with the appointment of three new directors general, including Jay Peckitt taking up the role at Department of Education.

Homebuilders are tackling challenges head on in a bid to meet a growing demand for housing.

Early works on the $2.8 billion Alkimos Desalination Plant are delivering opportunities for local firms including Pipeline Technics, Georgiou Group and Steel Mains.

A grassroots community group has chosen Fremantle businesswoman and photographer Kate Hulett to run as an independent against incumbent MP Simone McGurk.

Independent Fremantle candidate Kate Hulett would lobby to bar media moguls from owning gas companies should she be voted into state parliament next month.

Fremantle Port’s ageing B Shed ferry terminal will be in line for a $30 million upgrade should Labor hold onto the keys to parliament at this weekend’s state election.

A swag of swinging regional seats and close city tussles have candidates and one minister facing a nervous wait as the final votes are counted.

Of nine lower house seats in doubt following last weekend's state election, one has since been called.

Political parties have claimed victory in two more seats over the weekend as final counting for the March 8 Western Australian election rolls on at a glacial pace.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes new ministerial appointments, Dan Sweet, Priya Brown, Kellie Benda, Jen Leys, and additions to the management team for New World Resources.

Independent candidate Kate Hulett has refocused her campaign to a federal parliament stint, after narrowly missing the seat of Fremantle in the state election.