A former building director and his Mount Hawthorn business, Turquoise Developments, has been fined a total $40,000 in the State Administrative Tribunal for threatening behaviour.
The Environmental Protection Authority has released a new draft greenhouse gas emissions guideline, which substantially softens the initial draft guideline announced earlier this year.
Iris Residential is preparing to launch a $130 million apartment project overlooking Claremont oval after the State Administrative Tribunal overturned objections raised by the development assessment panel and the local council.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has disqualified the founder and chief executive of labour hire company Ochre Workforce Solutions from managing companies for five years.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission announced today it has banned Element Finance Group director Tim Zheng from engaging in credit activities for at least three years.
Building surveying company Resolve Group and its two directors have been fined a total $35,000 for negligence after signing off on three buildings that failed to meet fire safety requirements.
The Supreme Court has rejected the final bid from Perth mining executive Derek Ammon to have the Raffles Hotel bar closed at night over noise complaints.
Hanssen has been fined $47,500, after a tilt-up panel fell from a Finbar Group development onto parked cars, with the construction work being supervised by someone without adequate qualifications.
The state government has banned 11 contractors for up to five years each, as a result of the Corruption and Crime Commission's (CCC) investigation into the North Metropolitan Health Service.
Venus Metals Corporation has commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia against Davide Bosio, Paul Adams, DJ Carmichael and Spectrum Metals, in relation to Spectrum's acquisition of the Penny West gold project.
The Perth restaurateur behind The Meatball Bar chain, Gourmet Republik, and Thuggs Fried Chicken and Waffles, is accused of threatening to destroy a man's cafe and put him "in a coffin" over some fruit and vegetables.
Live export company Emanuel Exports and two of its former directors have strongly indicated through their lawyer they will plead not guilty to animal cruelty charges stemming from a sweltering voyage to the Middle East on which about 2,400 sheep died.
The operators of a scenic and commercial helicopter flights business in regional Western Australia have been fined $40,260 after it was found guilty of underpaying two pilots.
National Australia Bank is set to cop a $1.18 billion hit in its full-year results including an extra $832 million in customer remediation costs related to dodgy insurance and the fees-for-no-service advice scandal.
Industry bodies are divided over a plan to increase regulation of short-stay accommodation providers such as Airbnb, with Tourism Council WA and the Australian Hotels Association among supporters of the proposed rules.
A training institute that had operations in Western Australia has been slapped with a record $26.5 million penalty and must repay $56 million to the federal government over "callous" student recruitment tactics.
Ananda Kathiravelu, a director of corporate finance firm Armada Capital, will face trial after being charged with conspiracy to commit an offence of market manipulation.
Suspended Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has admitted at an inquiry that she broke the law when she interfered in the council heritage listing process for a building in which she had a financial interest.
The Morrison government has moved a step closer to beefing up the powers of the securities watchdog as part of its aim to restore trust in the nation's banking system.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the financial services licence of Perth-based Platinum Perpetual Global Private Wealth, after an adviser from the firm was charged with stealing $948,000 of clients' funds.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is launching legal action against the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and Bank of Queensland amid allegations of unfair small business lending terms.
A Chinese company suspected of illegally clearing land at a pastoral station in Western Australia's north has had its appeal against a stop-work order dismissed, but has been encouraged to apply for a permit retrospectively.
Suspended Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has told an inquiry it was a coincidence a city chief executive was axed after she learned he had referred her to the Corruption and Crime Commission.
Dale Alcock and Dale Alcock Homes have been fined a total of $10,000 in relation to a defective concrete slab that ultimately led to a decision to demolish and rebuild a Woodvale house.
The company that manages the Galleria Shopping Centre has been fined $45,000 after it was found guilty of failing to ensure safe access and egress for persons who were not its employees, after an explosion at Galleria in 2015 killed two men and left two others with severe burns.
Business people could face up to 20 years in prison and their company fined up to $10 million under industrial manslaughter laws to be introduced by the state government.
Perth company Shed Systems has been ordered to pay almost $77,000 in fines, compensation and costs after taking deposits from consumers for sheds but failing to supply them.
