The push for increased local content on big projects appears to be paying dividends, with Rio Tinto announcing a $70 million order for port equipment and local businesses Civmec and Doina Construction and Engineering undertaking work for coal and gold projects.
SPECIAL REPORT: A focus on creating and sustaining a liveable, connected and internationally appealing city is driving arts and culture development and construction projects across Perth.
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation will seek compensation from Fortescue Metals Group after the Federal Court recognised it has exclusive rights over Pilbara land where the company operates the Solomon hub.
Rio Tinto has slightly pared back expectations for full-year shipments of iron ore, as ongoing rail track maintenance work slows down its ability to export the steel making ingredient.
Former Wesfarmers boss Trevor Eastwood has stayed out of the limelight since exiting Perth's corporate scene, but has broken his silence to publicise his largest-ever philanthropic donation.
Subiaco-based software company K2fly has made its first acquisition since listing on the ASX last year, announcing today the purchase of a local specialist data collaboration company that counts the state's three biggest iron ore miners as its clients.
Fortescue Metals Group, Chevron and Rio Tinto have announced six new deals with indigenous businesses and charities, with the winners including Pilbara contractor Wirlu-murra Yindjibarndi Enterprises and Perth stationery supplier Kulbardi.
China's Yancoal looks to have sealed a deal for Rio Tinto's NSW coal operations after raising its offer price to $US2.69 billion ($A3.55 billion) to top a rival offer from global miner Glencore.
BHP has approved initial funding for its $3 billion-plus South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara, and the company's top Australian executive said he wanted to hear from local suppliers who could add value to the development.
Brierty has signed a new facility and debt restructure agreement with Bankwest that is conditional on the company's rectification plan at Rio Tinto's Western Turner Syncline project being approved by the iron ore miner.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has announced a number of contract wins worth a combined $100 million, with the majority of the work to be carried out by recently acquired, Sydney-based subsidiary Heyday.
Brierty announced today that its $300 million mining contract at Rio Tinto's Western Turner Syncline project, which was undertaken in partnership with three indigenous contractors, has been suspended.
Local contractor Primero Group is set to win its third major contract on a mining project this year while RCR Tomlinson has geared up to supply Rio Tinto's new iron ore mine.
The lobby group representing Australia's big businesses has called on the sector to sign up to its new voluntary payment term code in a bid to stave off regulatory changes.
OPINION: More does not always mean better. This fact of life, told by generations of mothers to their children, is something Australia's banks are discovering as they fight to defend their handsome profits from the latest tax raid.
Big companies are bullying smaller businesses in Western Australia, with more than half reporting they're not being paid on time, according to a new report.
Perth-based contractor Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has won $25 million in contracts for work on Rio Tinto's Amrun bauxite project in Queensland, bringing to about $150 million the value of contracts earned this month.
Indigenous group Pindari has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide cleaning, grounds maintenance and associated services at nine of Rio Tinto's mine sites in the Pilbara.
Iron ore miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group have announced initiatives designed to assist local suppliers, with Rio establishing a dedicated procurement team and FMG shortening payment terms.
The global company that runs many of WA's mine camps believes a technology platform developed with local ICT firm Velrada provides a blueprint for its international operations.
Mining giant Rio Tinto expects further growth in Asia on the back of China's One Belt One Road initiative, which is expected to result in heavy infrastructure investments in the region.
ANALYSIS: With abundant supplies of energy and the raw materials growing Asian economies need, WA is set to ride out the economic headwinds facing the eastern states.
SPECIAL REPORT: The value of investment into WA gold projects is about four times as much as this time last year, while growth in spending on lithium has been even more substantial.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has made a sluggish start to the year, with first-quarter shipments and production of iron ore affected by bad weather in Western Australia.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been hit with an additional tax bill of $447 million over a dispute on transfer pricing of commodities to its Singapore marketing hub.
Investment plans for BHP Billiton's South Flank project can proceed with greater certainty following the defeat of the Nationals WA's proposed iron ore levy hike at the ballot box earlier this month, according to the company's asset president of WA iron ore, Edgar Basto.
The appointment of Sam Walsh as a director of Mitsui & Company this week has brought attention to the usually low-profile Japanese multinational, which according to BNiQ Search Engine data has been a major investor in Western Australia's resources industry and is one of the state's largest exporters.
WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls, who was the target of a $2 million mining industry advertising campaign, today conceded he's lost his seat of Pilbara to Labor's Kevin Michel.
ANALYSIS: One state Liberal Party MP believes that hostility towards the outgoing premier, Colin Barnett, was responsible for up to 10 per cent of the unprecedented swing that swept the Liberal-National governing alliance from power in Saturday's election.
Rio Tinto chairman Jan du Plessis has confirmed he will retire from his post, ending a term of more than eight years at the head of the Anglo-Australian miner, to become chairman of UK telco giant BT Group.
