Saracen Properties' $118 million Gnarabup Beach resort proposal will undergo the highest level of environmental assessment, after a flood of public submissions on the development.
A North Perth service station that has been in the same family for two generations has sold to South Australian petrol station chain On the Run for $3.25 million.
Business News is launching a more personalised, user-friendly website, has redesigned its daily emails, and strengthened its editorial team with an experienced hire, in a bid to triple subscriptions sales.
A message from our CEO: Over the last few weeks, our goal at Business News has been for everyone to be prepared and not alarmed as well as getting ready to be productive while working from home for an extended period of time.
Western Australian business media company Business News has reorganised its leadership team, with the elevation of Charles Kobelke to chief executive to lead a growth strategy on the back of its subscription model success.
As a publisher, Business News has benefitted from the massive changes across the media landscape wrought by digital technology during the past two decades.
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Riding the waves of Western Australia's boom-and-bust economy while simultaneously dealing with the decades-long disruption to the media landscape means Business News has faced more than a few challenges during its 25-year history.
Business News has successfully negotiated the strategic shifts and technology revolutions that have reshaped the publishing industry over the past quarter of a century.
Proving its ongoing ability to deliver across traditional formats and new media, Business News has again been recognised with multiple awards at the annual Alliance of Area Business Publishers in the US city of Dallas.
Mark Pownall will become CEO at Business News from the start of the new financial year, replacing Charlie Gunningham, who has been at the helm for four years.
Preparations are being made for international fashion giant H&M to open its long-anticipated second store in Perth, while the Plaza Arcade is in line for a $6 million revamp to make room for another flagship global tenant.
Perth's tourism sector is expected to receive a boost from the Ritz-Carlton & The Towers proposal at Elizabeth Quay, with national construction contractor Probuild confirming it has been appointed to undertake the project.
PHOTO ESSAY: With our special report into Universities in next week's paper, Business News has taken the opportunity to speak to some recent and soon to be university graduates about what looms ahead as they make the big transition into the workforce.
Developer and funds manager OpenCorp has predicted Perth's residential property market to turn around in the next 12 to 24 months, with the Melbourne-based company aiming to increase its portfolio in Western Australia after the recent launch of two projects.
SPECIAL REPORT: The people who lead Western Australia's universities agree the sector faces enormous change, with emerging technology and potential new entrants among the biggest challenges.
SPECIAL REPORT: The opening last month of a WA-backed college in China, and the visit this week by a high-powered WA delegation to Indonesia, highlight the state's renewed focus on the multi-billion dollar international education market.
The City of Subiaco has been trumped by the metropolitan west development assessment panel, while residents in South Perth face a two-month wait to learn the fate of a contentious apartment project on Mill Point Road.
SPECIAL REPORT: A flurry of deals over the past fortnight, including four acquisitions by international companies expanding in Western Australia and the year's largest capital raising, has added life to a flat corporate finance market.
Perth-based law firm Jackson McDonald has honoured a former partner by funding an emerging cancer researcher as part of a record $4 million in grants announced by the Cancer Council WA today.
Educating the community on the benefits of higher-density development is looming as one of the big challenges for Lino Iacomella, who has taken the helm at the Western Australian division of the Property Council of Australia.
Special Report: The head of Japanese company Inpex's Australian operations says Australia remains a very attractive investment destination, and has suggested the company's Ichthys project could be expanded when conditions are right.
In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the Kailis family and agribusiness, the $A, state cabinet, WA stocks performance and oil & gas.
The Fini name is returning to Perth's property sector in a big way, with the Fini Group brand being revived for a series of apartment developments across the city.
SPECIAL REPORT: Business News CEO and online entrepreneur, Charlie Gunningham, analyses the social media influence of the political and business elite.
SPECIAL REPORT: The number of women serving on company boards is slowly one the rise, but it's still rare to see a female take the chair, judging by Business News's analysis of Western Australian company directors.
