Kewdale company Goldstar Transport has struck a deal to buy the major assets of MJ & CM West Transport Services, nine months after another Pilbara-focused transport business changed hands.
The chairman of engineering contractor Calibre Group told shareholders that he would step down after the company completed its delisting from the ASX, despite being up for re-election at a general meeting today.
Gold miner Northern Star Resources is taking the opportunity of a general downturn in mining to reduce its costs, while managing director Bill Beament expects there will be great opportunities for small and mid cap companies in the next few years.
The latest official report into Western Australia's gas supply and demand outlook has raised the ire of a group of major domestic gas users, which says some of its key findings are misleading and called for an independent review into how the report is compiled.
Construction on a 22-storey tower near Canning Bridge will start in March next year, after developer Norup + Wilson was given the green light to proceed by planning authorities.
Satterley Property Group has made its second acquisition in Perth's eastern suburbs in less than a week, paying $90 million for a 140-hectare tract of land in the Swan Valley.
Local Government Minister Tony Simpson says he's aware Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi is threatening to resign in the face of another inquiry into her conduct.
A definitive feasibility study on potash explorer Danakali's Colluli project in Africa has found a 30 per cent reduction in development costs to $US298 million ($A415 million).
Mincor Resources founder and managing director David Moore has announced plans to step down from his role from early next year, but will remain with the company as deputy chairman.
SPECIAL REPORT: Home builder Julian Walter and company director Tony Howarth have spoken to Business News about how they are working together on the transition to the next generation at JWH Group.
Supermarket wholesaler Metcash has suffered a 12.7 per cent decline in underlying earnings as the food and grocery price war eats into its bottom line.
Gold has dropped almost two per cent to a near six-year low, set for a sixth straight weekly decline under pressure from a firm US dollar and prospects of a US interest rate rise in December.
A local geologist and company director is launching a website for trading excess mining equipment, joining similar operations aiming to establish a secondary market for the industry.
This week we discuss Hancock prospecting, Michael Chaney, recent developments in the Pilbara and Kwinana and look at Western Australian business dynasties including one property company that has marked 120 years.
Caravan and accommodation manufacturer Fleetwood Corporation has foreshadowed a first-half loss of $5 million, while also announcing that its chairman and one of its long-serving directors intend to leave the board.
The Australian share market has faded into the red after a positive start, dragged back by the absence of a lead from US markets, and investor fatigue.
A New Zealand-based insolvency expert has been put in charge of a new state government authority that will decide how $1.7 billion from the Bell Group litigation will be distributed.
The opening of Furniture Gallery's third store in Osborne Park in late October capped a busy 18 months for two sisters behind the rapidly growing new entrant to Perth's interior retail scene.
Indigenous contracting in the Pilbara is getting more competitive, more complicated and arguably more divisive, as players chase a shrinking pool of work.
