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Tropical Cyclone Zelia’s predicted path.

Pilbara cyclone’s path ‘erratic’ and unpredictable, authorities warn

Tropical Cyclone Zelia is expected to make landfall as a category three system on Thursday or Friday, but its path is being described as “erratic”. 

  • Heather McNeill

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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a heatwave warning for much of the state while the Pilbara braces for flooding.

Pilbara on flood watch as Perth and south-west brace for heatwave

Cyclone Sean is not expected to make landfall but will bring with it damaging winds up to 120km/h for the Pilbara coast.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Gel Aguaviva has been missing since December 26.

Crew member missing off Rio Tinto bulk carrier headed for WA

The iron ore giant confirmed on Thursday Gel Aguaviva, a deck fitter on board its bulk carrier RTM Zheng He, went missing on December 26.

  • Hamish Hastie
While Australia is one of the world’s top shippers of LNG, most of that gas is produced in Queensland or WA, and is sold on long-term contracts to buyers in Asia

Chevron exits North West Shelf after 40 years in major asset swap with Woodside

Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill said the strategic and commercial rationale for the swap was “compelling”.

  • Hamish Hastie

Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?

Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.

  • Tim Elliott
The oil occurred while the tanker Catalan Sea was being loaded with oil.

Workplace safety watchdog launches legal action over Santos oil spill linked to dead dolphins

Neither Santos nor the government made the spill public at the time and, when it was eventually revealed by WAtoday, Santos described the incident as “minor”.

  • Hamish Hastie
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Murujuga National Park on the Burrup Peninsula in WA abuts major gas processing plants.

WA rock art expert scolds national counterparts for accepting Woodside donation

A senior WA-based rock art specialist has accused the Australian branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites of “heritage-washing”.

  • Hamish Hastie
The Pilbara Minerals lithium mine in Western Australia.

Pilbara lithium leader’s profit crushed after price collapse

The collapse in lithium prices has crushed full-year profits at Australia’s leading producer, Pilbara Minerals, and denied shareholders any dividends.

  • Marion Rae
A steel gang for the Mount Newman Rail Project, WA in 1969.

Their speed at building railways made them legends. What was their secret?

Brisbane Festival show Straight from the Strait ensures Torres Strait Islander workers of the WA mining boom are no longer unsung heroes.

  • Nick Dent
Electric arc furnaces

Australia’s green steel future threatened by lack of speed

If the steel industry was a country it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the United States and China.

  • Peter Milne

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