Regulation

Wiluna Mining has been fined $575,000 over an incident at its gold open pit that caused permanent spinal injury to an 18-year-old apprentice.

A Perth electrical company and its nominee have been fined $30,000 over unsafe work at a Thornlie property, where someone received an electric shock.

The man accused of killing former Mineral Resources executive Tim Picton has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

Peter Bartlett's FMR Investments has won a legal battle with his ousted lieutenant Patrick Keogh over a secret gold stockpile processing operation.

A Western Australian signage business has been fined more than $21,000 after failing to backpay a worker who worked for the company for a decade.

A trucking company has been fined more than $500,000 over a safety failure that led to a truck driver's death on the Great Northern Highway.

The competition umpire will further scrutinise IAG's proposal to acquire RAC's insurance business, warning it could “substantially lessen” insurance market competition in WA.

A former Beacon Minerals project manager has pleaded guilty to insider trading involving 11 million shares in the company.

UPDATED: Details of alleged war crimes by Ben Roberts-Smith, including using a grenade to cover up the murder of two Afghans, have been revealed after he was given bail.

A Perth agent has been permanently banned from the real estate industry after he failed to stop more than $700,000 being transferred out of the agency's trust accounts.

Police have decided not to pursue the assets of tech billionaire Laurence Escalante, who is facing drugs and assault charges brought against him in January.

An upcoming judgment over billions of dollars of iron ore royalties and shared ownership of mining tenements is expected to be short-lived with parties almost certain to appeal.

Third-party testing of Burk Fuel's petrol sold across Perth has revealed discrepancies in fuel grades.

The state aims to enter a bilateral environmental regulatory agreement with the Commonwealth by late 2026, pushing out the timeframe previously flagged by Premier Roger Cook.

Conversations with WA Police detail the business model for WA's $200 million illicit drug trade.

The federal court has handed down its highest penalty for a competition law breach, ordering Qteq and its Perth-based director Simon Ashton to pay $6 million.

Property mogul Allen Caratti-owned Mammoth Contracting has been fined $17,000 after being caught illegally dumping waste on CCTV cameras.

Fuel suppliers will have "the book thrown at them" if they are found to be profiteering off the conflict in the Middle East, the government says.

The founder of collapsed residential builder Inspired Homes has been fined more than $30,000 over defects in several Perth properties.

The tax office is pursuing the founder of collapsed builder Modco Residential, Yusuf Khan, over almost $7 million in alleged unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped its case against former directors of collapsed company Capital Mining, bringing an end to the legal dispute.

Australian companies with a clean compliance history are being targeted by black market operators and stolen to aid in fraud, according to a leading Perth accounting firm.

A WA man has been charged with acting in preparation for a terrorist act which allegedly included a mass casualty attack at Parliament House, police headquarters, and Muslim places of worship.

A Western Australian farm owner has been fined $22,000 over the death of a shearer who was caught in a decades-old wool press.

The first inflation data post-Federal government energy subsidy has revealed a 16-month-high underlying inflation reading, but experts still expect just one more cash rate rise this year.

Resources giant Santos has beaten a greenwashing lawsuit against its net-zero goals after telling a court it made targets not promises to slash emissions.

Cottesloe accountant Vittorio 'Vic' Letizia is set for a three week pre-Christmas trial over his alleged insider trading in Genesis Minerals shares.

Collapsed real estate firm Jim's Realty Pty Ltd has been handed the largest ever fine imposed on a WA agency after it was found to have repeatedly embezzled clients' funds.

The consumer watchdog has raised serious concerns about misleading advertising, wrongful charges and scams within the NDIS sector.

Some 562 improvement notices and six prohibition notices have been issued across 19 regional abattoirs around WA after WorkSafe conducted a 'proactive' inspection program.

Byson James Kete Turner has been charged after allegedly transferring nearly $860,000 from an NDIS firm he directed to his online gambling accounts, including Sportsbet and TABTouch.

The Federal Court has cleared the way for liquidators to distribute $4.7 million to victims of Ponzi promoter Chris Marco and to keep hunting for assets linked to the convicted fraudster.