Australian shares have closed weaker as mining and banking stocks lost ground, despite the energy sector and vaccines giant CSL giving the local market a shot in the arm.
Business News' index of 30 Western Australian stocks hit an all-time high this week, helped by solid gains by copper miner Sandfire Resources, oil and gas giant Woodside Petroleum and engineering and construction contractor Monadelphous Group.
Advertising agency 303 MullenLowe has been appointed by the City of Karratha to develop a four-year branding campaign worth $1.9 million designed to attract new residents and tourists to the area.
The Henderson contractor that outplayed local shipbuilder Austal for a share of work on the navy's new offshore patrol vessels has doubled profit over the past nine months, but it remains unclear how much work it will gain from the $3.5 billion project.
Brownes Dairy is chasing extra supplies for its expanded cheese factory in the state's South West and is believed to have approached the Lactanz cooperative and two farmers who were told last year their milk wasn't needed.
Australian businesses can be confident that strong personal relationships with their partners in China can help overcome any short-term problems between the governments of the two countries, according to two local business executives with close ties to the Asian powerhouse.
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Rio Tinto's autonomous train program at its iron ore operations is one step closer to full implementation after it received approval from the National Rail Safety Regulator.
The local beer label behind Northbridge Brewing Company and Whitfords Brewing Company has won the top prize at Australia's most renowned beer competition, hosted in Melbourne last night.
Bibra Lake-based Minetec has been awarded a $9.5 million contract to supply BHP's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia with an underground fleet management system, while the tech firm's parent company, Codan, has posted a profit upgrade.
John Georgiou will step down as chief executive of family-owned Georgiou Group after 20 years in the role, with executive general manager Rob Monaci to take up the position from August 1.
The state government has announced a partnership with Qantas that will provide discounted airfares for flights to Broome in an effort to boost regional tourism.
Oil prices climbed above $US80 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since November 2014, before retreating on a stronger dollar and climbing US output to end unchanged.
A cartage company has been fined $160,000 after pleading guilty to causing the death of two construction workers in East Perth in 2015 after tilt-up panels fell off a truck.
Struggling RV and accommodation business Fleetwood Corporation has made a pre-emptive move to avoid a board spill, after a major shareholder took steps to call a general meeting.
Entrepreneur lunch: Navitas managing director Rod Jones recently found a simple way to end in-house confusion about his phased handover to successor David Buckingham.
Entrepreneur lunch: Coogee Chemicals executive director Gordon Martin struck a chord at this year's Entrepreneur of the Year lunch when he said all businesses needed to re-engineer their cost structure every few years.
The auditor general of Western Australia has found about 785 artworks of the state's $300 million collection is at risk of damage or loss due to inadequate storage, conservation and monitoring by the Art Gallery of WA.
Despite adding 8,300 jobs in April, Western Australia has retained the highest unemployment rate in the country, according to latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
A renewed activist focus on the carbon sequestration efforts on Barrow Island is, like many populist arguments these days, abusing language to stir up emotions.
The federal government has endorsed changes to the livestock export industry designed to improve animal welfare but the WA government says it may still try to ban live sheep exports to the Middle East during the northern hemisphere summer.
