Australia's share market has started the week on the back foot as investor concerns about the economic outlook weigh on banks and consumer discretionary stocks.
Big four accounting firm PwC's Perth managing partner Martina Crowley will be retiring from the firm in November after three years in the top Western Australian position.
St Georges Terrace's revolving fine-dining venue, C Restaurant, has confirmed it will take its final turn at the end of January as the St Martins Tower redevelopment progresses.
Britain's Defence Readiness and Industry Minister used a visit to Perth to encourage Anthony Albanese and Roger Cook to learn from mistakes made in ensuring the community backed large-scale defence projects like the Henderson Precinct.
Administrators and receivers are assessing a sale or recapitalisation of WA Kaolin after the Wheatbelt miner's major contract with its Asian market distributor was cancelled.
The state government has awarded nearly $600,000 to a family getting back into major developments after the high-profile collapse of their last building company.
Develop Global has awarded a $275 million contract to GR Engineering Services to design and build a processing plant at its Pilbara copper-silver-zinc project.
Multiple contentious Labor policies might pass the parliament pending a deal, as Labor goes on the attack against One Nation and the coalition amid new polling.
The S&P 500 has closed lower, dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials, while investors digested weaker-than-expected retail sales data.
The vociferous response from WA political and business leaders to the Productivity Commission's interim GST report was as swift as it was predictable come Friday afternoon.
Australia's share market has posted its worst week since April as investors take money off the table amid softer commodity prices and earnings uncertainty.
Homes in the western suburbs of Perth continue to sell at a rapid pace, with one Cottesloe mansion set to sell for $11.75 million and another selling for $11 million.
The Royal Agricultural Society of WA has moved to cancel the Perth Royal Show's poultry competition over concerns it could become a bird flu super-spreader event.
OPINION: WA is competing for skilled workers, but competitive salaries and opportunities will not be enough if they cannot afford to establish a life here.
Former Woodside Energy director Melinda Cilento has been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Monetary Policy Board, adding further WA resources experience to the rate-setting panel.
A report by the Productivity Commission has denounced the current GST distribution system, calling it “perverse”, only of benefit to Western Australia and leaving the federal government with an “open-ended fiscal liability".
