Test For Port Is To Improve Through Power Of Learning

PORT Adelaide has travelled 380 kilometres north of the South Australian capital to Whyalla for the first stop on its AFL Community Camps program.

Onesteel Confident Over Expansion Plans

OneSteel's $325 million plan to expand iron ore production and steel output at its Whyalla steelworks will pay for itself in five years under a worst-case scenario, says chief executive Geoff Plummer.

Onesteel Hopes To Cash In During Boom

ONESTEEL'S $325 million plan to expand iron ore production and steel output at its Whyalla steelworks will pay for itself in five years under a worst-case scenario, says chief executive Geoff Plummer.

Cost Blow-out Hits Onesteel's Whyalla Project

Wage increases and skyrocketing prices for construction materials add $50 million

Onesteel Still To Iron Out Whyalla Problems

PROBLEMS with its relined Whyalla blast furnace prevented OneSteel from posting a record six-month profit yesterday, but strong steel price rises implemented last year helped soften the blow.

Furnace Failure Dogs Steel Firm

ONESTEEL'S Newcastle mills may be fed with imported raw steel after the company's Whyalla blast furnace broke down yesterday for the second time in as many months.

Whyalla Fire Won't Hinder Onesteel: Expecting To Maintain Profit Momentum

Investors rallied behind OneSteel yesterday after hearing the country's number two steel maker could exceed last year's profit despite the effects of a fire at its blast furnace last month.

Barclays Come Aboard As Onesteel Hits Problems

The country's second-largest steel maker, OneSteel, yesterday revealed operational problems with its Whyalla blast furnace, which was relined only recently.

Onesteel Says Blast To Furnace Hold-up

The country's second-largest steel maker, OneSteel, yesterday revealed it had run into some operational problems with its Whyalla blast furnace, which has only recently been relined.

Huge Snapper Lands Big Prize For Heath

WHEN Heath Withers hit the road from Shell Cove to fish the recent 2004 South Australian Amateur Snapper Championships at Whyalla, he never thought he would return to the Illawarra with the coveted trophy for catching the heaviest snapper weighing 14.72kg.

Whyalla Inquest May Lead To Lawsuits

A coroner who investigated South Australia's Whyalla Airlines tragedy that claimed eight lives three years ago has blamed engine malfunction.

Doubts On Plane Refuelling Unbelievable, Says Coroner

An Air BP worker may not have refuelled a Whyalla Airlines plane before it crashed into the Spencer Gulf on May 31, 2000, killing all eight on board.

Onesteel Earnings Upgrade Lifts Sector

The Australian steel sector rose yesterday after Whyalla-based OneSteel announced a profit upgrade that will result in it making more in the December half year than in all of 2001-02.

Onesteel Tips First-half Bonanza Of $54m

The Australian steel sector rose yesterday after Whyalla-based OneSteel unveiled a profit upgrade which will see it make more in the December half-year than in all of 2001-02.

Hunter's Big Hopes

KARYNE DI MARCO (athletics) Karyne was born in Whyalla, South Australia, but moved to Newcastle where she did the majority of her schooling before moving to Sydney to pursue her athletics career.

Coroner To Have Final Say On Contentious Fate Of Flight 904

After an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation and two years of speculation about what caused the double-engine failure of Whyalla Airlines flight 904, South Australian Coroner Wayne Chivell is about to have the last word.

A Rule That Could Have Saved Eight Lives

The partners of two men killed in the Whyalla plane crash are horrified they may have died senselessly because the national aircraft safety body failed to act for 14 months on a crucial recommendation to put life jackets on small aircraft. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has launched an internal investigation into why progress on the life jacket rule - for aircraft with fewer than nine passengers - stalled in a bureaucratic maze until last Friday, when a discussion paper was released.

100 Planes Linked To Lean Fuel Danger

More than 100 Piper Chieftain aircraft still flying in Australia could experience the same malfunction which led to the Whyalla Airlines crash that killed eight people, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau confirmed yesterday.

Auiron Set To Expand Plant

Auiron Energy is to spend a further $5 million to expand its Whyalla pig-iron demonstration plant in an effort to significantly cut the construction costs of a commercial plant.

Air Crash Engine Claims `wrong'

Federal Transport Minister John Anderson has rejected aviation commentator Dick Smith's claim that Whyalla Airlines was allowed to delay engine overhauls before its fatal crash.