It helps supply drinking water to the coastal towns connected to the West Pilbara water scheme. But it's also used extensively by the region's mining industry, for uses including processing and ...

Even so, senior forecaster meteorologist Angus Hines told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that some Pilbara towns could become cut off as water levels rose due to heavy rain brought by the storm.

The Pilbara iron ore industry today has few union ... cooperative during the 1979 Hamersley Iron strike. Workers lived in towns near mine sites, and socialised together after hours, some playing ...

A stone's throw from several of Australia's most profitable mines, Aboriginal elders are sleeping rough or in overcrowded ...

In 2017, the town grabbed the McGowan Labor ... the government announced its response to the investigation, dubbed the West Pilbara Plan (WPP). While some community members say they have seen ...

When you think of this location, you might picture bustling docks, booming mines and vast, sun-baked landscapes, but the Pilbara town has another claim to fame – it was recently ranked the ...

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe it's the oldest impact crater in the world, at about 3.5 billion years old. That surpasses the previous ...