Local engineering and construction group Valmec has announced it will purchase Henderson-based specialist pipeline testing company APTS, which was recently put into receivership.
Oil prices have risen nearly 2 per cent to their highest in two-and-a-half years, with buying spurred on by a sixth day of unrest in OPEC member Iran and strong economic data from the United States and Germany.
Gold prices have fallen, extending losses after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its December policy meeting, which fed the view among investors that more US interest rate rises are in store.
Subiaco-based Blaze International has announced that it will acquire mining company Everest Minerals via the issue of 48,500,000 million shares to Everest shareholders.
Regional Express has been selected by the state government as the preferred airline for the Perth-Carnarvon-Monkey Mia air route while Skippers Aviation was nominated to remain in operation at the Perth-Northern Goldfields routes.
A new Perth-based cryptocurrency exchange is aiming to be in operation in the first quarter of 2018 after the company recently raised $750,000 in private funding.
Perth-based technology company DTI Group has won a $US7.2 million ($9.5 million) contract to install CCTV surveillance systems on light rail vehicles in the US over the next 18 months.
The state government has announced a new board to run the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority and LandCorp in the lead up to their planned merger, with just one board member from the MRA continuing on the new body.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) has been ranked the most trusted charity for the seventh year running in the Charity Reputation Index for 2017, followed by St John Ambulance and CareFlight.
Western Australian indigenous business Carey Training has been awarded a $2.5 million training contract with the Malaysian Institute of Technology Academy based in Kuala Lumpur for the next three years.
The City of Fremantle has shortlisted six companies for the building contract for the civic building and library as part of the $270 million Kings Square redevelopment, while also announcing the demolition contractor for the council's old administration building.
Mining contractor Resource Development Group has been awarded a concrete and civil works contract worth more than $9 million at Mineral Resources' Wodgina lithium project in the Pilbara.
The Australian share market has opened marginally higher on the back of a positive lead from Wall Street where two of the three stock indexes hit record closing highs on its first trading day for 2018.
Gold has extended its rally into the new year, touching late September highs on a softer US dollar, while spot palladium jumped to a record on fears of short supplies after soaring 57 per cent in 2017.
Oil prices have hit mid-2015 highs early on their first trading session for 2018, before dipping to settle slightly lower as major pipelines in Libya and the UK restart and US production soared to the highest level in more than four decades.
The Australian dollar is slightly lower against its US counterpart, which has fallen to a three-month low in its first trading session for 2018, but has plunged against the yen and the euro.
Mining veteran Milan Jerkovic is taking the reins at embattled gold producer Blackham Resources, which has negotiated a standstill agreement on a $14 million debt repayment due this week and plans to ask shareholders to contribute $36 million of new capital.
Accounting, auditing and advisory firm Pitcher Partners has made a move on its strategy to grow its presence in Perth by taking up residency at 12-14 The Esplanade, overlooking Elizabeth Quay.
Perth-based TNG has commissioned Carnegie Clean Energy's subsidiary Energy Made Clean to evaluate renewable energy options to power its Mount Peake vanadium titanium project.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been awarded a number of new commercial and public infrastructure contracts across Australia totalling more than $90 million, including $66 million of work at a new section of the Westmead Hospital in New South Wales.
The share market has posted its first fall for the week as selling in the financial and property sectors outweighed gains by energy producers, miners and retailers.
Shares in Sky and Space Global have soared after announcing it had secured a $US30 million ($40 million) contract for a Nigerian company to use its nanosatellite technology for the next five years.
Textile company Nanollose has created what it says is the world's first plant-free viscose-rayon fibre, claiming it represents a breakthrough in its efforts to reduce environmental impacts on the
The newly formed Perth Arts Leaders Collective has an ambitious goal to transform tourism in Western Australia while simultaneously lifting the profile of the state's artists and creative community.
Phoenix Energy has announced major changes to its planned waste to energy project at Kwinana, with Macquarie Capital becoming lead sponsor and two European groups negotiating to take on construction and operations.
