The founder of the failed fuel technology company Firepower has been banned from running companies for 20 years. ASIC brought action against former Firepower chairman Tim Johnston after the company collapsed in 2008, leaving investors out of pocket.

About 40 truck drivers are set to drive in convoy through the Perth city centre this morning to protest against high fuel costs and rates of pay.

A section of Perth's Roe Highway, which has been closed since a fuel tanker crashed on Saturday afternoon, has now been re-opened.

Firefighters are being praised for their quick actions after a fuel tanker exploded in Perth's south-east.

The Aboriginal Legal Service has welcomed the roll-out of non-sniffable fuel in the Goldfields, saying it is long overdue.

An Aboriginal health group in the Goldfields says the introduction of non-sniffable fuel in the region will help address escalating rates of petrol sniffing.

The federal opposition has questioned the slow roll out of non-sniffable fuel to Western Australia.

The boss of the collapsed fuel techonology company Firepower, Tim Johnston, has failed to appear in the Federal Court in Perth today.

Christmas Island residents have been warned diesel supplies are running low with bad weather conditions hampering efforts to get more fuel to shore.

The Federal Court has found that a company owned by the Perth property tycoon, Warren Anderson, illegally sold shares in the fuel technology company, Firepower.

A $3-million project has been launched in Karratha to produce renewable fuel from algae.

The supply ship for Christmas Island has been unable to dock for a month, raising concerns about food and fuel shortages on the island.

Missionaries from the Solomon Islands have had to be rescued off the Kimberley coast, after running out of fuel on their boat trip home.

Transforming household waste in Cambodia into a source of fuel may not seem like the ideal holiday for most people.

Western Australia's largest independent fuel company Gull has been sold.

New data shows petrol is more expensive in Alice Springs than almost anywhere else in the country.

The Federal Government says it is not yet prepared to use legislation to force petrol retailers in regional areas to sell non-sniffable Opal fuel.

The operators of an oil well that leaked millions of litres of fuel and gas into the Timor Sea last year expect to resume operations at the site within 12 months.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released its preliminary report into a helicopter crash that killed a young man in the remote central Kimberley.

An independent fuel monitor says the West Australian Pilbara town of Port Hedland is the country's most expensive place to buy petrol because of higher wholesale and retail margins.

Police have joined an investigation into a plane crash at Perth's Jandakot airport, after investigators discovered a problem with the fuel line.

The State Opposition has called for the government's Country Aged Pensioner Fuel Card to be made available to more people in semi-rural areas.

Pensioners who receive a carer's or disability allowance will now be eligible for WA's Country Aged Pensioner Fuel Card.

Five Sri Lankan asylum seekers are missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim for help when their vessel ran out of fuel, food and water off the West Australian coast.

Albany residents are blaming high fuel loads for the rapid spread of a fire at the weekend.