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BlueScope Steel has rejected a revised takeover offer from Stokes' SGH but says its board remains open to a deal at a higher price.

Lynas Rare Earths' profit has surged more than thirteenfold after pocketing a higher price for its sought-after product, despite power outages at its Kalgoorlie plant.

Capricorn Metals says a record-filled first half of the 2026 financial year has put it another step closer towards becoming a successful mid-tier gold producer.

St Georges Terrace traded suits for Lycra this week as Business News hosted the first-ever Corporate Cycling Challenge.

NDIS autism costs blow out to $10b

US stocks rose Wednesday and erased their losses for the week so far, as Nvidia and other technology companies led the way.

Qantas Group has reported profit of $1.46 billion for the first half of the financial year upon strong leisure demand, fleet renewal and growth in its loyalty business.

The Bunnings Property Trust has continued its sell off, with the divestment of its Port Kennedy warehouse.

A war of words has erupted between Treasurer Rita Saffioti and her opposition number Sandra Brewer, over a request for a briefing on WA's GST retention fight.

Elisha Newell talks to Mark Pownall about WA's biggest and most profitable private businesses.

Business News was the focus during a debate in parliament about energy transition on Wednesday.

City of Perth councillors are set to vote on spending $280,000 to implement workplace recommendations tonight, continuing a meeting that ran for more than four hours on Tuesday.

Australia's share market has broken multiple records as earnings season delivers more outsized company-level moves for bigger players, while mining stocks remain hot assets.

A Western Australian farm owner has been fined $22,000 over the death of a shearer who was caught in a decades-old wool press.

Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation has launched an expression of interest process for customers wanting to buy renewable energy or access its planned transmission network in the Pilbara.

Fenix Resources' profit has jumped more than 400 per cent as the Mid West iron ore miner gets its projects operating at full capacity.

WA high-performance computing company DUG will fight a hefty legal bill lobbed at it by a Texas court, after it was found to have breached a supplier contract with a Shell subsidiary.

OPINION: The flexibility of gas cements its value as a transitional energy source.

Timber products group has survived an adverse manufacturing environment in WA.

Overland Group will undertake a $65 million expansion of its abattoir near Bunbury to help meet demand for sheep meat processing.

The property fund has updated its earnings guidance following a $54.6 million operating profit.

OPINION: Students, universities, employers and the workforce more generally stand to benefit from degree apprenticeships.

Duratec boss Chris Oates says he is confident the engineering firm is ideally placed heading into the second half of FY26.

Prominent lawyer Peter Gordon has vowed to bring decades of indecision to an end as he launches a $1.5 billion case to clean up Wittenoom against the WA government.

Mining still leads WA's private business rankings, but the list is quietly rewriting itself.

Macallum made its ASX debut on Wednesday morning, valued at $28 million.

The first inflation data post-Federal government energy subsidy has revealed a 16-month-high underlying inflation reading, but experts still expect just one more cash rate rise this year.

Perth City Apartment Hotel boss Eddie Kamil has lost a legal battle with WA Consumer Protection Commissioner Trish Blake.

Shares in Fleetwood fell by more than 20 per cent early on Wednesday, despite posting a first-half net profit after tax of $8.6 million.

US Senator Tim Kaine has pressed the Department of Defence on what it's doing to help Australia process critical minerals, and called for more support to move away from Chinese processing.

Traditional owners have launched legal action against the Western Australian government over its failure to clean up mountains of deadly asbestos at Wittenoom.

US stocks rose Tuesday after getting a reminder that the artificial-intelligence boom may also have an upside.