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The economic alarm has again been sounded over climate inaction, with an environmental group warning the cost of extreme weather has more than doubled over the last 50 years.

Jonathan Moss has been appointed chief executive of WA family-owned pie company Mrs Mac's, replacing Paul Slaughter.

Fortescue Metals Group may be required to regularly revise and publicly release the greenhouse gas management plan for its new Pilbara power station following an appeal by the state's peak conservation body.

Perth-based exploration companies Parkway Minerals and Trek Metals have completed capital raisings collectively worth $8.3 million.

Construction has officially begun on Brightwater Care Group's new 128-bed residential aged care facility in Inglewood, with the facility expected to open next year.

Aged care and retirement living organisation Maurice Zeffert Home is not run by one chief executive, but three.

Aged care organisations are investing in technology and dementia-friendly design as more people with the condition enter facilities.

The royal commission and the pandemic have not stemmed the pipeline of aged care developments but they could have a lasting impact on how care is delivered.

Prices in Perth deflated 1 per cent in the December quarter, thanks to the government's electricity credit, but there's an underlying upward pressure.

The IMF has upgraded its global economic growth forecast for this year, but admits that exceptional uncertainty remains.

Business conditions have risen to their highest levels in two years, suggesting strong momentum in Australia's economic recovery.

Gold giant's boss declares office era over

Australia will pledge $1.5 billion over five years to help build a more climate-resilient world and set up a new agency to deal with disaster resilience and risk reduction.

The diplomatic row between Australian and China rolls on, but new figures show trade between the two countries has not been totally throttled by the war of words.

Australia's share market has closed a little higher as investors favoured consumer and technology stocks, expected to do well in next month's earnings reports.

WA Labor has pilloried the opposition's plan to sink the City West rail line, warning the project could cost the state as much as $1 billion.

Australia has put a stop to the New Zealand travel bubble for 72 hours after a South African variant of COVID-19 was detected in a woman after 14 days of isolation.

The Western Australian government has blamed spiralling debt under the previous administration for its failure to house more vulnerable people.

After a bumpy 2020, Australian meat producers and exporters face headwinds in 2021.

Perth-based software solutions company K2fly has signed a five-year contract with aluminum producer Alcoa Corporation.

Western Australia is in better economic shape than any other state as we bid a relieved farewell to 2020 and look forward to 2021.

Economic tensions and COVID-19 loom large as Sarah Hooper champions WA and international trade atop the state's branch of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The federal government is boosting Australia's maritime security with a $1 billion development of advanced guided weapons.

The state government has launched a new initiative to boost Perth's tourism sector in the wake of COVID-19, amid claims as many as one in five WA tourism businesses face closure.

The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been provisionally approved for use in Australia with the first jabs set for late next month.

From advertiser to architect, Michelle Blakeley is at the forefront of a new housing solution tackling homelessness.

Juniors set to cash in on boomA surging iron ore price is set to give birth to two new WA junior exporters of the steel-making commodity within days. The West

A final investment decision for Wesfarmers and SQM's proposed lithium project in WA has been delayed, as the joint venture undertakes further work to reduce its cost.

Australia's share market has closed lower but provided gains for the week, with an analyst tipping that a good February earnings season could see the ASX return to the lofty 7000-points range.

In this week's podcast, Mark Beyer and Matt Mckenzie discuss another big gas project for WA, some positive economic data, the debate over homelessness, Metronet, The Agency, and the future of interest rates.

Community organisations are stepping up to resolve the homelessness crisis in Fremantle, with a number of local people in need offered accommodation in recent days.

Real estate firm The Agency Group has released its most recent financial and operating results just days after having to fight to stop administrators from taking action.