The Western Australian Club, which has been running since 1893, has been placed in the hands of administrators, one week after another historic icon - West Perth Football Club, founded in 1885 – took the same path.
It may have gone largely unnoticed in Western Australia, but a recent report into the east coast's electricity market could have major implications for the state, including for government-owned monopoly power business Synergy.
Perth-based Metals X has raised $50 million via an institutional placement, with the proceeds set to be spent at the company's Nifty copper project in the Pilbara.
Cardinal Resources has secured a $US25 million ($33.7 million) credit facility with Canada-based asset manager Sprott Private Resource Lending, as the junior explorer progresses a feasibility study at its Namdini gold project in Ghana.
Ventnor Resources has exercised an option agreement to acquire the Muchea silica sand project north of Perth, while also announcing a $2.4 million capital raising.
Nickel-focused Western Areas has signed a farm-in deal with Iluka Resources for a series of tenements in South Australia worth up to $5.8 million over the next seven years.
A new multi-gallery art space is set to open in the Perth CBD next month, as Cool Change Contemporary moves into the historic Bon Marche Arcade on Barrack Street.
Oil prices rose with US crude futures jumping more than two per cent, as traders continued to focus on supply disruptions and a possible hit to crude output from US sanctions on Iran.
A broad sell-off of technology stocks has pushed the three major US stock indexes lower, with the Nasdaq Composite posting its third consecutive loss of more than 1 per cent for the first time in three years just days after hitting a record high.
The state government today announced a further aligning of Healthway and Lotterywest through the appointment of common board members, including former Labor health minister Jim McGinty.
Junior explorers Magnetic Resources, Golden Rim Resources and Real Energy will tap investors in separate capital raisings worth a combined $12.3 million.
Gold Road Resources has flagged further cost increases at its half-owned Gruyere gold project, while also extending an earthworks contract with MACA at the site.
A specially commissioned Liberal Party WA report is set to reignite controversy over the way Goods and Services Tax revenue is redistributed just as federal treasurer Scott Morrison was hoping the states would accept his recent compromise proposal.
Lion Energy is pleased to advise it has executed an agreement to sell the Company's holding in South Block A to Blue Sky Resources for a nominal amount of $10.
Austal has announced the government of Caribbean country, Trinidad & Tobago, intends to purchase two patrol boats in a deal worth approximately $100 million.
Constellation Resources, a spin-out of Apollo Minerals' Fraser Range assets, has begun trading positively on the ASX today, after raising $7 million via an initial public offering.
Gas users will save nearly $200 million over five years after the Australian Competition Tribunal dismissed a move by the owner of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline to alter a pricing decision by the state's Economic Regulation Authority.
Despite maintaining its position as the worst performing state in the country, Western Australia's economy showed improving levels of investment, according to the latest CommSec State of the States report.
Telstra has hired former SBS boss Michael Ebeid to look after its corporate and government customers, as part of a wider senior executive overhaul announced on Monday.
UPDATED: The massive block of land that once housed the derelict half-built mansion dubbed the "Taj on Swan" in Peppermint Grove has failed to sell at auction, but an offer was accepted on Friday 3 August.
SPECIAL REPORT: With shipments at Shell's Prelude FLNG facility still to get under way, one Perth businessman is hoping to reignite use of the technology for stranded gas fields.
