A diverse group of local not-for-profit disability enterprises has set a target to win $50 million worth of contracts by 2018 and create an additional 500 jobs for people with a disability.
Slowing trade with China and Japan has contributed to a10 per cent fall in Western Australian merchandise exports for August, compared with the same period last year.
Former Sirius Resources boss Mark Bennett and director Neil Warburton have joined the board of Independence Group, which acquired Sirius in a $1.8 billion takeover last month.
General Mining Corporation has confirmed the viability of earning a 50 per cent stake in Galaxy Resources' Mt Cattlin tantalum project, after an independent review found it would cost $14.7 million to bring the project back into operation.
Sales at the Swan Brewery Industrial Estate have surpassed $70 million, with 55 lots at the Linc Property-developed estate sold since August last year.
Shares in Antipa Minerals have soared on news it has attracted backing from mining giant Rio Tinto, which plans to invest up to $60 million in the local explorer's Citadel gold-copper project.
Local engineering services company Clough is boosting its North American presence with the acquisition of Canada-based Enercore Projects for $C10 million ($A10.5 million).
SPECIAL REPORT: The domgas market is going through a period of structural change, but history has lessons for those businesses that know where to look.
The competition watchdog has dealt a blow to the taxi industry's attempt to take on ride sharing service Uber with a new smartphone booking app, saying it could threaten smaller competitors Ingogo and Gocatch.
SPECIAL REPORT: As the energy construction boom winds down, policy makers must get the settings right to prepare for future investment, while energy players mull the best way to allocate scarce capital.
Oil has edged up in New York and slipped in London as traders book profits from the week's rally fuelled by hopes for oversupply relief from lower US crude production.
Gold rose to a seven-week high after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting showed the US central bank was in no hurry to raise interest rates.
Like a lot of WA's mineral and land resources, the easy developments of LNG may be behind us; but that doesn't mean we should simply live off the past.
Angie Paskevicius, the chief executive of non-for-profit drug and alcohol support service Holyoake, has been named the 2015 Telstra Western Australia business woman of the year.
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has selected its Perth office to trial an ‘insourcing' centre that will recruit up to 30 graduates to work in tandem with a similar centre in Dublin.
Junior explorer MRL Corporation has received firm commitments for a $4 million capital raising to fund development of mine shafts at its graphite tenements in Sri Lanka.
The share market has capped off its best week in almost four years as strength in the financial and resources sectors drove a fifth straight day of gains.
The winner of a new innovation program has combined gaming technology with its traditional focus on process control data to create a product that has attracted keen interest from some of the state's biggest companies.
Commercial real estate agency Metier has scored another plum government job, this time to handle retail leasing for the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority at Midland's Railway Workshops.
Perth's falling median house price may be causing doom and gloom for property owners, but two top agents say current market conditions represent a perfect time for potential buyers either to get a foothold on the property market or upgrade their position.
