Western Australia Country Hour

Charles Sturt University is investigating transparent solar panels for Australian agriculture.

Australia's buffalo industry is enjoying strong demand from Indonesia, with regular consignments of animals being shipped out of Darwin Port.

The federal government is continuing its review of quarantine arrangements to consider allowing fresh Cavendish banana imports from the Philippines into Australia.

The vice president of WAFarmers has welcomed the Premier's attempt to make changes to working holiday maker visas, with a letter addressing the concerns sent to the federal industrial relations minister.

A number of grain groups have written to WA's Industrial relations minister asking her to urgently scrap or delay new dust rules that are set to come into effect in just under five weeks.  

The United Nations has issued a warning to oil and gas company Chevron after independent satellite monitoring revealed large plumes of methane over the company's Gorgon gas plant in the Pilbara.

Children from Western Australia's remote Pilbara have swapped pencils for a microphone to share a taste of rural education through a country song.

US farmers are reconsidering their vote for US president Donald Trump and the Republican Party, in the lead up to the mid term elections.

For the first time telecommunications companies will be required to provide a baseline level of mobile coverage across the country.

While fresh cut flowers are easy to find in most cities, it's a different story in some of Western Australia's remote towns and communities.