Prime Minister Julia Gillard has spent the day in Perth where she visited an Armadale primary school and announced schools and teachers will be given cash incentives under a rewards program for improvement and quality teaching.
Paladin Energy's $27 million off-market scrip offer for Niger-focused uranium explorer NGM Resources is in danger after it was revealed Deutsche Securities Australia has acquired a 10.7 per cent stake in NGM.
Perth company AnaeCo has announced Infrastructure Fund Manager, Palisade Investment Partners, has given in-principle approval to fund construction of an expanded waste treatment facility at Shenton Park.
The interim review of the Federal Government's schools building stimulus program only received eight complaints about WA schools from almost 1400 WA projects that received funding.
The population of central Perth has risen by 80 per cent over the past five years according to the latest regional population figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Federal Labor has announced it will maintain funding to private schools until at least 2014, while the Coalition has announced a plan to increase workforce participation by people over 50.
The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has released a list of local issues it wants the Coalition and Labor to deal with in the last 17 days of the federal election campaign.
Property developer David McKenzie has been cleared of knowingly giving false evidence to the Crime and Corruption Commission over the controversial Smiths Beach development.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised more money for families with teenagers while Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition government would boost the tourism industry to the tune of $92 million.
Eight months after a Norton Gold Fields managing director Jon Parker and chief financial officer Simon Brodie resigned from the company the gold miner has announced their replacements.
