Lucinda Jose is a Rural and Resources Reporter who has been based in the Geraldton bureau in various roles for more than a decade. Local to the Mid West she is committed to informing and entertaining regional people and bringing these stories to wider audiences.
As the fight against a massive bushfire north of Perth continues, honey producers have reported devastating losses to habitat critical for their bees.
The mining, renewable energy and agriculture sectors are competing for precious groundwater in WA's Wheatbelt.
An Australian minerals company wants to clear about 1,000 hectares of threatened native banksia woodlands for two WA mining projects.
With the Chinese economy slowing and authorities cracking down on "gratuitous" spending, Australia's export industries are being exposed and impacted in different ways.
A Mid West farming family say they have been ignored and disrespected by a company planning to process minerals on the property next door.
Diesel accounts for about 85 per cent of the energy used on Australian farms, but that mix is expected to change as alternative fuels and renewable technology become more affordable.
Declining rainfall and a 34 per cent drop in water flow results in increased management measures put in place around the major food-producing town Gingin north of Perth.
Local councils say the growing number of renewable energy projects needs to be balanced against local land use requirements and community interest.
The WA opposition says flood damage to the Geraldton-Mount Magnet road shows investment in country roads is being deeply under-resourced.
Wheatbelt farmers like Kristin Lefroy are sitting on a secure water supply despite having endured a bone-dry summer and autumn. They say adopting desalination has been the key.
There are some things that are cute to us like ladybirds — but not if you're a tomato potato psyllid, a wasp-like pest that can halve crop yields.
Western Australia's rock lobster industry says a proposal to conduct seismic testing off the WA coast poses a significant threat to the state's $240 million fishery.
Western Power plans to install up to 4,000 solar and generator-driven standalone power system units in the coming decade to decommission 15,000km of power lines, but some locals say they're being forced into a bad situation.
Locally extinct from Western Australia's northern Wheatbelt for almost a century, a brushtail possum has been photographed out and about, signalling a landscape-scale conservation success.
A Wheatbelt farmer says a storm that tore through the region last week, leaving thousands without power or communication for days, created damage that will take at least a year to repair.
Two friends — one from Spain, the other from Mexico — find the perfect ingredients for cold tomato soup in Western Australia's Midwest.
Livestock producers in northern WA are bottle feeding calves and cutting back their herds, as devastating drought and market conditions collide.
Regional shires are often at the front line of firefighting, but some say WA government-supplied vehicles are not suitable for the state's largely sandy terrain.
A farmer says it is beyond him how firefighters were able to control a series of fires that police allege were deliberately lit at the weekend.
The biggest blueberries in the world are grown in Western Australia and export markets love them. Demand for the berries is driving one farm to quadruple in size.
Touted as a new-age biofuel by its promoters, a safflower harvest has been sold as birdseed after a lawyer found an alternative market for farmers who had been contracted to grow it.
Drought-hit pastoralists say a bottleneck is preventing their beef getting to market at a reasonable price, and must be fixed.
Promoted as an oilseed alternative to petrochemicals, safflower is left sitting uncollected in silos across the country with its exclusive developer unable to pay contracted farmers.
Just over 12 months after a celebrated re-opening, industry sources say Esperance's Shark Lake is unlikely to re-open, shocking farmers and workers.
With a few beeps and a slight rev of the engine, Alfie, the autonomous sprayer, sets off to work. He may be the best new recruit on this farm.