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Rio Tinto has boosted its global iron ore production to a record level during the June 2013 quarter, as it reviews new options to achieve its growth target at its Pilbara operations. Rio has also disclosed the high cost of a legal dispute with Gina Rinehart's company Hancock Prospecting.

Belmont-based NRW Holdings announced today that it had been awarded a major contract at BHP Billiton's Mooka Iron Ore car repair shop site.

Australia's biggest owner of natural gas pipelines APA Group has approached leading natural gas distributor Envestra Limited about a merger proposal.

Beleaguered surfwear icon Billabong is expected to announce asset sales and new loans within days as it fights to overcome weak revenues and oversized debt.

The Reserve Bank says another interest rate cut could be on the cards thanks to a benign inflation outlook.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he's taking a wait-and-see approach to Indonesia's stance on live cattle export quotas.

Western Australia's role as a cash cow funding Canberra's pre-election spending spree was highlighted today when the first of the big iron ore miners filed its June quarter production report, confi

The Australian stock market is higher, following Wall Street's lead after the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both reached fresh record highs for the third session in a row.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is under fire from unions, business and the Greens over his plan to start emissions trading in 2014, but insists it will help ease living costs while maintaining pollution

Analytical testing services group ALS will spend nearly $600 million on two acquisitions to increase its exposure to the growing oil and gas industries.

The tax office is set to target builders and sales and marketing managers over incorrect work-related expense claims this year.

Online entrepreneurs based in Western Australia have carved out some great businesses, but there is definitely an ageing quality about them.

Perth companies Aura Energy and South Boulder Mines have announced the appointment of new chairmen, as they strive to make progress on their mining projects.

The Australian dollar got a modest bounce from China's latest economic growth figures, but remains lower.

Encouraging signs for the housing sector have driven a rise in banking shares, which pushed the market to a fifth straight day of gains.

Minotaur Exploration has announced an agreed takeover offer for Perth-based Breakaway Resources and the establishment of two new joint ventures to fund exploration of Breakaway's tenements.

Perth-based Gold Road Resources has delayed a pre-feasibility study in the belief that project development and operating costs in Western Australia will become cheaper.

The completion of an initial resource estimate for Sirius Resources' second major nickel deposit near Norseman has failed to replicate the market excitement when the ore body was initially discover

Treasurer Troy Buswell has several unpalatable choices in his quest to ensure that his first budget after last March's election victory meets the government's undertaking to return a surplus.

Winemaker Treasury Wine Estates will take a $160 million hit as it attempts to address a glut of stock in the United States.

Australia's second largest energy retailer AGL Energy plans to buy smaller rival Australian Power & Gas for about $100 million.

Sundance Resources is now fighting legal action on three continents over a 2010 plane crash in west Africa which killed the company's entire board of directors.

Subiaco based oil and gas explorer Jacka Resources has raised $3.25 million through the issuing of 38.5 million shares.

Labor's scrapping of the carbon tax will ease living costs but households shouldn't get too excited.

Shares in mining hopeful Oakajee Corporation have been placed in a trading halt as the company moves to raise funds.

Kevin Rudd has got the jump on the conservatives when it comes to fostering better labour relations.

IT has taken just a few years for the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture to establish itself as one of Perth's most prestigious art events.

Perth-based technology group Titan ICT Consultants has been signed by the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research to design and build the IT systems for two new medical research facilities

Perth's Murdoch University has joined the ranks of tertiary institutions appointing leading resources industry players as chancellors.

As if commodity price uncertainty and falling consumer confidence weren't bad enough, now the weather is conspiring to dent WA's economy.