SPECIAL REPORT: Financing opportunities have improved markedly from just two years ago for the state's junior miners, amid growing demand for drill rigs and skilled workers.
Even those with only a passing interest in the resources sector would recognise there's something unusual about an iron ore miner talking up a natural gas project and an oilman talking it down.
ASX-listed property group Stockland has invested $91 million in the purchase of more than 4,600 residential lots across three metropolitan corridors in Perth, comprising a total 385 hectares of land.
Fortescue Metals Group has terminated its agreement with TransAlta Corporation to purchase power from the recently completed South Headland power station after the miner raised performance concerns in August.
A newly established company led by a group of Perth oil and gas executives aims to become a major supplier to the domestic gas market after buying the offshore Equus gas fields from US company Hess Corporation.
Mustang Resources managing director Christiaan Jordaan has resigned two weeks after an auction for its rubies in Mauritius brought disappointing results.
Altura Mining has taken the next step to double capacity at its Pilgangoora project, approving a definitive feasibility study for expansion to 440,000 tonnes per annum of lithium concentrate, while confirming shipments from stage one of the mine are due in the second quarter of 2018.
The private investors in sandalwood business Santanol Group, led by Tony Jack and Bob Bunning, have gained backing from litigation funder IMF Bentham for their fight against private equity group KKR.
US-focused Alexium International Group has announced the appointment of two Australian non-executive directors, Claire Poll and Susan Thomas, while chairman Gavin Rezos will be retiring as of May 2018.
Mining and civil contractor MACA has announced a hit to earnings due to underperforming contracts in its Interquip and Victorian infrastructure divisions.
Shares in Great Boulder Resources have tripled in value today after the company announced encouraging drilling results at Mt Venn, within its Yamarna copper-nickel-cobalt project east of Laverton.
Cement and masonry supplier Adelaide Brighton, which owns Cockburn Cement, is investigating some transactions that may have hidden customer underpayments for supplied products.
Crude is down slightly as expectations that OPEC and other producers will extend their production cut agreement were offset by US drillers adding the most oil rigs in a week since June, indicating output will continue to grow.
The Australian dollar is lower against its US counterpart which itself has slipped, along with equities, amid concern over President Donald Trump's planned tax reform.
Gold prices have turned lower as US Treasury bond yields rose, but losses were limited by weaker stock markets and the US dollar, which fell due to uncertainty over US tax reform.
Six projects designed to make Perth a smarter city were launched yesterday, and they comprise a very eclectic collection, from a driverless electric bus in South Perth to management of wetlands in Joondalup.
In this Business News podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss stock market hits highs, renewables privatisation, Perth Stadium, Historic Heart, Perth Festival, and junior miners.
Western Australian universities will receive 8 per cent of the $333.5 million in federal government funding announced today to support new research projects nation-wide.
The competition watchdog has had its first major win enforcing a new franchising code of conduct, with the Federal Court today fining Pastacup franchisor Morild and co-founder Stuart Bernstein $150,000 for a failure to disclose he had been a director of two insolvent entities.
A fashion collaboration between internationally renowned Jimmy Choo, local designer Alvin Fernandez, and Western Australian indigenous artist Peter Farmer was brought to Perth earlier this week for a temporary exhibition.
Pilbara Minerals has struck an agreement to work on the possible development of a lithium processing facility in joint venture with South Korean companies Polaris Shipping and LG Chem.
US media giant CBS's $41 million takeover of the Ten Network can proceed, with a court approving the transfer of all shares in the local network to the American company.
The board and management of gambling giant Tabcorp should have done more to ensure that the company was meeting its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing obligation, a Federal Court
The Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale has prepared the release of 650 hectares as part of a project to develop industrial and commercial precincts in Mundijong and Cardup.
The Western Australian cooperative and mutuals sector continues to perform strongly on the national stage, with WA accounting for four of the country's top 10 co-ops and mutual enterprises, a new report has found.
The increasingly competitive nature of the arts marketplace has prompted a rebrand at the longest-running international arts festival in Australia, Perth International Arts Festival.
