Nine WA-linked resources businesses are ranked among the country's top 20 corporate taxpayers, despite a widespread perception the industry does not pay its way.
Former Wesfarmers executive Terry Bowen is planning to reduce his involvement at private equity group BGH Capital after taking an expanded board role at BHP and joining the board of Transurban.
The federal government has announced a $50 million emergency fund to address the loss of wildlife during the nation's bushfire season, as more Australian businesses have pledged millions in combined donations.
Andrew and Nicola Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has committed $70 million to Australia's bushfire response, far exceeding the contributions made by big companies across the country.
Engineering group Monadelphous has secured several new construction and maintenance contracts, including three with BHP, worth a combined value of around $110 million.
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A move to use lasers to perfectly load rail cars is worth about $300 million to BHP and is an example of how the area around the town of Newman is world class in applying technology to resources.
With Australia's rate of disability employment stagnating, Business News spoke to businesses and people with disabilities to find out how to improve participation and be more inclusive.
Woodside Petroleum has laid out plans to triple its gas and oil reserve base which will come from more than $US36 billion worth of projects in Australia, Senegal and Myanmar over the next seven years.
A price has been set for processing Scarborough field gas at the Pluto LNG facility, Woodside Petroleum and BHP announced today, the second boost for the $15 billion project in recent weeks.
Woodside Petroleum said today its Scarborough gas project had a strengthened case for development after the company raised its reserves estimate by 52 per cent.
Western Australia's two biggest charity events, Telethon and the MACA Cancer 200 Ride for Research, raised a collective $47.4 million for medical research over the weekend.
Premier Mark McGowan has firmly urged BHP and Chevron to reach agreements with Woodside Petroleum so the giant Browse and Scarborough gas projects can proceed.
BHP shareholders are poised to reject a motion urging the world's biggest listed miner to suspend membership of some industry bodies judged to be at odds with goals to tackle climate change.
BHP says it will make a final investment decision on its long-delayed Jansen potash project by early 2021, and announced its South Flank iron ore project is now half complete.
MACA has secured a $26 million contract at the Fortescue Metals Group-operated Iron Bridge magnetite project in the Pilbara, while NRW Holdings secured a contract in Queensland.
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BHP says big miners' profits will not survive if they simply pay lip service to the social and environmental toll of resource extraction, with the "social value" of a business decision increasingly important to a company's long-term future.
Perth Glory's men's and women's sides will have a distinctive new look for the 2019-20 A-League and W-League seasons, with Australia's biggest miner, BHP, taking over from QBE as the club's principal sponsor.
Eddy Haegel has made a career breathing new life into struggling assets at BHP, including the revival of the mining giant's nickel business; sharing his story at a Business News breakfast today, he was also bullish about the potential to develop more downstream processing of battery minerals in WA.
A widely publicised report out today that claimed Western Australia will need 10,700 more operational workers in the mining sector by 2024 appears to be misleading, according to a review by Business News.
Alaska is a long way from Western Australia, but what's just happened in the oil industry there could have a significant effect on plans to expand this state's liquefied natural gas industry.
The restart of the Ravensthorpe nickel project has officially commenced amid surging prices of the commodity, as owner First Quantum Minerals launched a recruitment drive to fill at least 350 direct roles at the mine.
Business News has updated its listing of WA's biggest mining projects to reflect the downturn in lithium, the dearth of new gold mines and the increasing dominance of iron ore.
The official opening of BHP's upgraded Mulla Mulla village in the Pilbara today adds a key component to the company's strategy for attracting workers to its iron ore projects.
Twelve big companies have pledged to lift their indigenous procurement to 3 per cent of their annual spend, seeking to match targets the federal and state governments have already set for their own agencies.
SPECIAL REPORT: Four prospective domestic gas projects will be key to ensuring adequate supply in WA in the next decade, despite new facilities recently starting up.
A buy-back scheme for Port Hedland property owners adversely affected by iron ore export-related dust is expected to be in place within the next six months, with the costs of the scheme to be borne by mining giants BHP, Fortescue Metals Group and Roy Hill Holdings.
Shares in Australia's big three iron ore miners have broadly stabilised today after suffering big falls in recent trading sessions, in line with a dramatic collapse in the iron ore price, which is down more than $US23 per tonne since its peak last month.
Woodside Petroleum has awarded a contract to Netherlands-based Boskalis to undertake seabed intervention and shore crossing works for the proposed Scarborough export gas pipeline.
Sodexo Australia, one of WA's largest employers, announced a partnership with The Clontarf Foundation this morning as part of its Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan.
