Alys Marshall

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.

Australian mining company Tivan shares its plans to mine fluorite in the Kimberley in an announcement to the ASX, following the material's recent addition to the national critical minerals list.

Singapore-based cotton giant Louis Dreyfus Company is set to acquire 100 per cent of Namoi Cotton shares.

The collapse of the forestry investment scheme has left landowners owed millions, as an expert questions why Quintis did not pulp its own stock to reduce oversupply.

Panoramic Resources plans to axe 140 on-site jobs as it winds up the Savannah nickel mine in Western Australia, with the price of the base metal falling by more than 44 per cent in the past year.

The first export shipment of mineral sands from the Thunderbird Project arrives in China as a traditional owner calls for further land clearing suspensions at the mine after the discovery of a direction stone.

A year since bridges, cattle and homes were swept down the Fitzroy River, residents reflect on the road to recovery.

Sandalwood giant Quintis has taken action on its plantations in the face of millions of dollars in losses.

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

In 2020 Tesla's Elon Musk begged mines to supply more nickel. Now the price of the critical mineral has tumbled and Australian producers are feeling the pinch.

Cattle and aquaculture industry leaders say the growing number of Indonesian fishing boats operating off the Kimberley is creating the risk of lumpy skin and foot and mouth disease outbreaks in Australia.

From time immemorial, the river that runs from the hills of the east Kimberley to the mouth of King Sound in Western Australia has been the setting of stories and events that have shaped the country. But now it's the subject of much discussion.

Canada's Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) has taken its first giant step into Australian pastoral land ownership with the purchase of a 2.9 million hectare Kimberley beef portfolio.

Environs Kimberley director Martin Pritchard says he was horrified after reading accounts of scrub bulls dying in cattle yards and wants the incident investigated.

The Fitzroy River bridge, a critical transport link that was decimated in Western Australia's worst-ever flood, will reopen next month

Industry members say a pastoral company's negligence led to the deaths of hundreds of cattle and the dumping of abattoir waste in an unfenced paddock that other cattle have access to.

Less than a century ago, Indigenous men were paid in small stone "coupons" for their work on cattle stations. Now, Mervyn Street has helped win those workers and their families landmark compensation.

The WA government has reached agreement with claimants acting for thousands of Aboriginal Australians across the state paid little or no wages.

Businesses across northern Australia are chasing a Kimberley beef company for significant unpaid debts, according to industry sources.

Drought-hit pastoralists say a bottleneck is preventing their beef getting to market at a reasonable price, and must be fixed.

With supply down by more than 50 per cent, WA supermarkets are struggling to fill shelves with the popular fragrant fruit amid an unusually light national harvest.

From fewer cyclones to higher temperatures and drier conditions, here's what an El Niño wet season has in store for northern Australia.

A world-class laboratory that will turn mother-of-pearl into a bone substitute opens in northern WA.

The Fitzroy Crossing bridge's completion is set to provide certainty for freight companies and tourists approaching the upcoming wet season.

Australia's legacy cotton country is once again bone-dry, but some of the area's largest growers have set their sights on an unlikely part of Australia where the grass might just be greener.