Saskia Pickles

Two recruitment agencies with businesses in Western Australia have joined forces to provide more flexible hiring arrangements of mining tradesmen and a range of executive professionals.

SPECIAL REPORT: The Economic Regulation Authority has dismissed calls from several industry bodies for the creation of an independent infrastructure advisory body, saying it is an added cost unlikely to contribute much.

The Property Council of Australia is set to release a report that calculates the true cost of poor planning and delayed infrastructure.

More small-to-medium Western Australian business owners are delaying plans to sell as market conditions convince them to hang in longer in the hope they can increase revenue.

The state government has secured private funding to build own and operate a 150 megawatt power station in South Hedland which will incorporate infrastructure from a smaller power station that collapsed engineering company Forge Group was building.

Hours after announcing it had secured $US6.47 billion ($6.89 billion) in equity funding to construct a long-heralded port and rail network at Oakajee, junior explorer Padbury Mining has put its shares in a second trading halt in anticipation of revealing the identity of the investors.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has been taken to court by the corporate watchdog for failing to lodge financial reports on time.

Water Corporation has reduced its water losses from leaks and overflows 11 per cent in the 2012-13 financial year and recorded the lowest operating costs out of the major water utilities nationwide.

Fortescue Metals Group has vowed at the official opening of its final expansion project that it was not the end of its incredible rise to become the world’s fourth-largest iron ore producer.