Regional areas including Laverton and Leonora are experiencing a spike in youth crime and violence.
Fortescue Metals Group has backed down in its stand-off with West Australian regulators,saying it will provide documents relating to alleged sexual harassment cases.
A company spokesperson said Fortescue would “not be pushed into breaking the law or releasing the private information of our team mates without their knowledge or consent”.
A worker has died after a rail-related incident overnight at BHP’s Boodarie facility near Port Hedland.
The Burrup Peninsula in WA - home of more than one million Indigenous rock engravings up to 40,000 years old - is understood to have been nominated for World heritage listing.
Just hours into their first shift,about 74 kilometres south of the Pilbara mining town of Newman,a team of scientists searching for a minuscule target heard a beep.
WA Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson confirmed the capsule was found after 11am on Wednesday.
Federal authorities are set to join the massive search for a dangerous radioactive capsule missing in Western Australia.
The company has launched an internal investigation into how it was lost over a 1400-kilometre stretch of road,as authorities launch their own probe and search.
Problems at three Santos and Chevron gas plants have dramatically slashed the gas supply to WA but power supplies are expected to be unaffected.
One of the world’s largest producers of ammonia – a vital fertiliser ingredient in short supply – has shut down due to a lack of gas in WA.