Alistair Bates is a journalist with ABC News, based in Carnarvon and covering WA's Gascoyne region. Formerly a producer at ABC News Breakfast.
Satellite monitoring has detected huge plumes of methane above one of Australia's largest gas complexes, triggering a UN alert and inquiries by state authorities.
Two Greenpeace activists are due to face court after sailing out to open waters and occupying an offshore gas platform to protest Woodside's planned gas developments.
An unexpected find in a Perth attic has opened a door from past to present, shining a light on an unsung chapter of Australian history.
A regional magistrate says she will lodge a complaint against WA's Child Protection staff after a teenager in their care was left to appear alone in court.
The national Aboriginal children's commissioner has arrived in Port Hedland after reports of children living unsupervised in the Pilbara town sparked a political firestorm.
On the anniversary of her grandchildren's burial, Dorothy Papertalk is leading calls for change in South Hedland as a political storm grows over Western Australia's child protection failures.
Fortescue is the third group to appeal against a record Federal Court award of $150.3 million to traditional owners. Both the Yindjibarndi people and the WA government have lodged filings of their own.
Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski flies into Port Hedland amid a report that up to 15 children, some as young as five, are living unsupervised in a home in South Hedland.
Australian authorities executed the textbook helicopter rescue after the Canadian sailor's vessel began taking on water 1,000 kilometres south-east of Christmas Island.
Qantas has slashed luggage allowances to Australia's most remote territories. Locals say the airline is reducing access to essential supplies.
They waited in a Fremantle attic for decades. Now an anthropologist's snapshots of remote Australian history are about to see the light of day.
A WA council will refund Chris Ellison's multi-billion-dollar mining company nearly $160,000 after the state government overturned a controversial Supreme Court case, with residents in isolated areas caught in the middle.
The Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest's Fortescue faces a renewed legal battle over a record $150.3 million native title compensation payout, with the WA government confirming it would appeal a landmark Federal Court judgement.
A semi-submersible cargo carrier has arrived on the remote Australian territory to ferry the SpaceX starship back to Texas.
With final advice due by the end of the year, critics point to Woodside's own modelling to sink the $30 billion gas project.
For decades, Woodside has sought state and federal approval to tap Australia's largest undeveloped conventional gas reserve, the Browse Basin.
BHP's Port Hedland operations just faced 48 hours of industrial action, but how much of an impact did it have?
On the north coast of WA is the state's largest island, where a small marsupial is benefiting from work to remove pest species that have made the island home.
More details emerge of a horror crash near Shark Bay that left two men dead and a woman and child seriously injured.
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents
Two men are dead while a 12-year-old child and a woman are in hospital after a utility struck a vehicle towing a caravan near Shark Bay in WA's Gascoyne.
Topic: Transport Accidents and Incidents
The emergence of Perdaman on the national stage brings a complicated local reputation with it.
Yindjibarndi native title holders have voted to continue their decades-long legal battle with mining billionaire Andrew Forrest.
Four days in, the Federal Court has scrutinised the decision to extend Australia's biggest gas project another 40 years, amid fears for Indigenous heritage and climate impacts.
Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.