One of Australia's biggest transport companies will invest in a record-breaking electric truck fleet, including prime movers to be built in Brisbane.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The Australian staple ham sandwich has been banned from being advertised on public transport for links to increased cancer, following similar move in WA last year.
Fraser Williams
E-scooters and e-bikes will be allowed to rub shoulders with pedestrians on shared paths at certain speeds in one state, but who will enforce speed limits?
Alex Mitchell
Taxi drivers could lose their accreditation if caught repeatedly gouging and mistreating passengers under a state government crackdown.
Callum Godde
Australia's transition to low-emission vehicles could speed up after the election, experts say, fuelled by ongoing tax cuts and emission limits.
Freight rail operator Aurizon is slashing 200 jobs after a series of major bulk customers have run aground and Alcoa closed a key WA operation.
Matt Mckenzie
An electric ship constructed in Australia that will ferry people and cars in South America is the biggest of its kind and is being hailed by its builder.
Ethan James
Australian drivers and employers could miss out on thousands of dollars in tax savings if the coalition puts the brakes on an electric vehicle policy.
An interim report into how a massive container ship struck the berthed tall ship STS Leeuwin in Fremantle Harbour has outlined the sequence of events leading up to the terrifying collision last August.
Bethany Hiatt
Following a 51 per cent rise in personal watercraft offences last summer, the Department of Transport is warning skippers to exercise caution this Easter.
Liam Murphy
Fewer than one-in-three electric vehicle drivers can access a charger at work and incentives could get more people to go electric and drive to the office.
Roadworks in Middleton Beach under construction since November have been further delayed, with the City of Albany pushing its expected completion date to May.
Melissa Sheil
Perth commuters are being asked to ‘please allow extra travelling time’.
The mother of a six-year-old autistic boy who was locked inside a bus outside an Ellenbrook child care centre on a scorching afternoon has spoken out.
Rita Saffioti has been forced to defend her department’s clearing of a small suburban wetland to make way for a road extension — despite turtles and cockatoos being affected, prompting a community outcry.
Jessica Evensen and Joe Spagnolo
Estonian authorities have detained an oil tanker due to "suspicious activities", the Baltic nation's prime minister says.
Staff Writers
Premier Roger Cook has brushed off revelations of empty rail cars on the new rail line to Yanchep, likening low passenger numbers to a country road that ‘has no cars on it’.
Technology that will let drivers use their electric vehicles as giant household batteries is launching in Australia, although its reach is limited.
Transport Minister Rita Saffioti has defended the billions spent on the Metronet project amid new patronage figures showing stations in Perth’s far-north are falling below expectations.
Dylan Caporn
Transport Minister Rita Saffioti has refused to directly answer further questions about the State Government’s Metronet rail program and instead turned her fire on the Opposition.
Ask Rita Saffioti about Metronet, and you will likely get a glowing response.
Peak-hour ghost trains to Yanchep will haunt Rita Saffioti as the price tag for Metronet nears $14 billion.
A new round-the-clock control room monitoring WA’s expanding rail-lines will ‘improve’ responses to delays and incidents across the network, the Transport Minister says.
Caleb Runciman
More drivers are getting behind the wheel of a new car but preferences are changing, with hybrids speeding up and petrol cars slowing down.
