Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Perth-based Intellect Systems, a subsidiary of Resource Development Group, a control and engineering services contract for the first stage of its North Star magnetite project in the Pilbara.
Lend Lease has been selected to expand the Kwinana Freeway south of Roe Highway, in a $62 million contract announced by the state and federal governments today.
Westoz Investment Company stated that it almost tripled its reported profit in the 2014 financial year, with an increase in after tax profit from $7.4 million last year to $21.2 million.
The National Tertiary Education Union has argued that the impact of the federal budget cuts would leave Western Australia's universities almost $500 million worse off.
VDM Group has responded to rumours it will acquire mining rights at an Angolan copper project by saying the potential acquisition is incomplete with no certainty on its terms.
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The state government says its $2.2 billion Forrestfield-Airport rail link will be complete by 2020, with the line set to include an eight kilometre tunnel underneath the Swan River.
Perth gold miner Minera Gold has received $US4.5 million from investment company SilverStream to help fund the acquisition and proposed expansion of the San Santiago processing plant.
Treasurer Joe Hockey has rejected advice from his Liberal predecessor Peter Costello that he cut his losses and scrap unpopular budget measures such as the $7 GP co-payment.
Vital Healthcare Property Trust, a New Zealand-based medical and healthcare property investor, has bought a 31-bed psychiatric hospital in Perth for $13.5 million.
Steven Goh's Asia-focused social networking business migme has launched on the Australian Securities Exchange following a reverse takeover of gold explorer Latin Gold.
The Australian dollar has stabilised after last week's falls on the back of weaker-than-expected jobs figures and a downbeat economic update from the central bank.
Gold prices have fallen, as concerns of a sooner-than-expected rise in US interest rates turned the tide of haven asset buying sparked by US airstrikes in Iraq.
The Civil Contractors Federation Western Australia has backed a Productivity Commission report recommending large infrastructure projects be unbundled into smaller packages to encourage competition among contractors.
A southern region MP has lashed out at state government bureaucracy due to the scrapping of the Department of Housing's 3,000-hectare Keralup land development.
Exploration and development company Cape Lambert has announced it will return almost $25 million to shareholders, just a week after a successful settlement with the Australian Tax Office.
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About eight years ago I was fortunate enough to catch a ride on a small aircraft from Kununurra, flying over Lake Argyle, the Argyle diamond mine and the Bungle Bungle range.
Ratings services Standard & Poor's said today it had revised its outlook on the 'BBB-' issuer credit ratings on DBNGP Trust, the owner of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline, and relate