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The combined business would reportedly have had an LNG (liquefied natural gas) capacity of 16 million tonnes a year.

Network Aviation pilots will stop work for 24 hours on Thursday impacting passengers across regional Western Australia who fly with the Qantas subsidiary.

Nickel prices have plummeted in recent months due to a glut in the market, but some analysts say it's part of the "boom and bust" nature of the industry.

Police appeal for witnesses after the black sedan veered onto the median strip in the CBD in the early hours today.

The multinational Schlam Group employed Ambrose Walton before his death in the Pilbara last week and will pay to send the 33-year-old's body home to his family in Canada.

A forfeited Lexus is turned into a roving anti-speeding advertisement to encourage drivers to slow down, as WA's South West region records the worst regional road toll in the state.

As another school year begins, the ABC speaks to 10 recent high school graduates from all over country Australia about their hopes, dreams and fears for the future. 

The employer of a fly-in fly-out worker found two days after crashing his work vehicle in remote Western Australia says the utility was due to have a tracking device installed next week.

WA police confirm 33-year-old fly-in-fly-out worker Ambrose Walton, missing in the Pilbara region since Tuesday, has been found dead after his vehicle crashed near an unsealed access road.

Plummeting critical mineral prices have pushed WA's major industry players to mothball their mines, workers to lose jobs and the government to all but panic. What's the fallout and what comes next?

Nickel miners could pay less to mine in WA, as the government holds crisis talks with the resources industry as mines shut and hundreds of jobs are lost.

Ambrose Walton, described as having a strong Canadian accent, was last seen near Tom Price on Tuesday and never turned up to meet a friend in Karratha.

Residents in parts of the Pilbara, Midwest and Goldfields have been warned to brace for extreme heatwave conditions from Friday and into the weekend.

Living in regional Western Australia remains a costly enterprise, with prices consistently higher than Perth for basics including groceries and fuel.

A blue alert has been issued for the remote islands, with the newly declared cyclone expected to intensify over the course of the day.

Karl O'Callaghan is urging the state's director of liquor licensing to consider a police proposal to restrict the sale of alcohol in more regional areas, warning "children's lives at stake".

From playing games in the scorching summers of WA's Pilbara to representing Australia, Josh Vernon's cricket career is only just beginning.

Mugarinya Community Association's $50,000 fine for animal welfare breaches "does not reflect the community standards and expectations put on the agricultural industry", claims feedlot operator Paul Brown.

A regional WA firefighter opens up about dealing with trauma amid a statewide call for the same presumptive post-traumatic stress disorder coverage given to paid emergency crews.

A former coal, oil and gas worker, Ray Middleton believes isolation shouldn't stop people from switching to electric vehicles.

How does a pristine tropical island manage decades of rubbish? For one of Australia's most remote territories, it can be an expensive ordeal.

Operators of a station in WA's Pilbara will be forced to pay a $50,000 fine over the death of 1,000 cattle suffering from neglect. 

The sole surviving native lizard species on one of Australia's most isolated territories faces a similar fate to its late relatives as researchers try to turn the tide.

A cattle industry survey shows millions of dollars in losses from deliberately lit fires, with pastoralists calling for more concrete action.

A couple who own a Moora-based livestock transport company had planned their attempted deception, a court has heard, but it just wasn't very well thought out.