BHP will not match Wyloo Metals' bid for Canadian nickel play Noront Resources, clearing the way for the Forrest-backed business to acquire all capital in the company for C$1.10 apiece.
Rio Tinto has signed a deal to buy the Rincon lithium project in Argentina for $US825 million ($A1.2 billion) as majors eye a supply crunch later this decade.
Premier McGowan has extended mandatory requirements for eligible workers to receive a third booster shot and reintroduced hard borders to all Australian states.
Gina Rinehart sold off about $10.2 million worth of shares in lithium aspirant Vulcan Energy Resources as it fought to keep a damaging short selling report out of publication, an ASX notice has revealed.
Property fund manager Charter Hall's social infrastructure real estate investment trust has acquired two childcare portfolios for $134 million, including 18 WA childcare centres for $100 million.
Woodside has signed with Asian partners to develop a long-term supply chain of sustainable hydrogen from Western Australia to Singapore and potentially Japan.
Chemicals manufacturer Coogee is planning a $40 million expansion of its chlor-alkali plant south of Perth, in a bid to more than double production at the Kemerton site.
Austal's US subsidiary has been contracted for $2.8 million to deliver initial design studies for the United States Navy's Next Generation Logistics Ship program.
Western Australia's health system is set to come under extraordinary pressure when interstate borders reopen, even without a surge in local COVID-19 hospitalisations, doctors have warned.
Investors enjoyed their best day on the ASX in almost two weeks as the Reserve Bank gave no hint of imminent rate rises and buyers returned for CSL shares.
Western Australia's bid to spearhead the nation's space sector has taken a small step, with California-based LeoLabs eyeing Collie as home for its first low earth orbit radars in the country.
A strained WA labour market and plant shutdowns have forced Pilbara Minerals to trim its forecasted production and shipping guidance for the financial year.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will discuss with premiers and chief ministers time frames for booster shots and masks mandates to curb COVID-19's spread.
WA business sentiment remains higher than pre-pandemic levels and the long-term average, but higher costs and supply chain issues will continue to dominate in 2022, CCIWA reveals.
Investors found few gifts on the Australian market at the start of Christmas week as the prospect of reintroducing virus restrictions weighed on energy and bank shares.
ANALYSIS: Aboriginal leader Kado Muir has publicly asked a question many people are asking privately: why did premier Mark McGowan make so many changes in Friday's ministerial reshuffle?
Fortescue Metals Group has pledged $750,000 to provide training, professional development and support for telephone crisis supporters under a three-year partnership with Lifeline WA.
The state government has awarded Province Resources' green hydrogen project HyEnergy with lead agency status, lifting the group's shares by more than 7 per cent.
Shares in Fremantle-based junior Bardoc Gold enjoyed a 13 per cent rise after revealing a takeover proposal from gold producer St Barbara valuing the company at $157 million.
Neerabup explorer Orbit Drilling and Bayswater engineering company B&Y Precision Engineering have been fined a combined $456,000 for a workplace death and injury by the state's workplace regulator.
Canadian Ambassador to China and McKinsey & Company mainstay Dominic Barton will take over as chair of Rio Tinto from May 2022, as the company navigates a post-Juukan Gorge era.
