Educators have opened classroom doors to new learning possibilities via a program that connects industry with students in a competition to create their own technology startup.
Architect Sam Klopper has shrugged off community consternation over an apartment project on Kennedy Street in Maylands, instead pitching the development as a model for future urban infill.
Litigation funder IMF Bentham has announced it will fund a shareholder class action against former directors of collapsed miner Kagara, which went into administration in 2012.
Subiaco-based Perseus Mining has awarded engineering company Lycopodium a $38.4 million contract to carry out work at its Sissingue gold project in Cote D'Ivoire, Africa.
Western Australia is unlikely to pocket a larger share of the GST pie before its voters go to the polls early in 2017 after Treasurer Scott Morrison warned any change in the distribution formula would be made gradually and was "down the track".
A new uranium mine in the eastern Goldfields region has been recommended for approval, with a number of strict conditions imposed by the Environmental Protection Authority.
Perth-based agribusiness Wellard has warned the market of yet another profit downgrade, its third since February, with the Perth-based agribusiness now expecting a $15 million net profit at best.
Energy giant Santos will take an impairment charge of $US1.5 billion ($A2 billion) against the carrying value of its Gladstone liquefied natural gas project in Queensland.
Slowing residential construction has claimed more scalps, with the flow-on effects likely to have negative repercussions for the affordability of new housing.
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Gold has turned slightly lower as the US dollar pared losses, with investors grabbing profits after the metal jumped more than one per cent following unexpectedly flat US retail sales data.
Oil has risen two per cent, clinching its biggest weekly gains since April, after a short covering rally was triggered by comments from Saudi Arabia's oil minister in the previous session about possible action to help stabilize the market.
With five decades of experience in the banking and corporate sectors, there was no shortage of issues to be discussed when Tony Howarth sat down to lunch with Business News at the newly reopened Julio's restaurant.
A move towards usage of blockchains, the engine behind bitcoins, in the energy sector could have benefits for poles and wires operators as the industry faces increasing disruption, according to a proponent.
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LWP Property Group has launched two new land estates in Perth's southern suburbs, shrugging off slowing market conditions that are forcing other developers to look interstate.
The challenges of motherhood were the inspiration behind Adventure Snacks founder and Perth resident Tracey Davidson's decision to start her own small business, and she's part of a long-term growing trend of women who are doing so.
The share market has closed only modestly higher, despite US markets hitting record levels overnight, weighed down by weakness from market heavyweights Westpac and Telstra.
Australia's Campbell sisters have both missed the medals in the Olympic 100-metre freestyle final, with Bronte finishing fourth and Cate sixth, but the nation's quad rowers took home silver.
