The state government has settled outstanding costs over the Perth to Mandurah rail line at a substantially lower amount than what contractors had sought.
Shares in Nedlands-based explorer Reward Minerals have slumped after the National Native Title Tribunal ruled the company cannot access its Lake Disappointment potash project.
The state government will prosecute oil and gas producer Apache Corporation for failing to maintain and repair a gas pipeline at its Varanus Island facility that exploded last year.
The state's housing market is expected to make a modest recovery over the next two years but will still fall short of underlying demand, a new report shows.
The state government has opened a second geothermal acreage release in the south-eastern region of WA following the success of the first round last year.
Minemakers has entered into a port access agreement with the Darwin Port Corporation for its $100 million Wonarah phosphate project in the Northern Territory.
Less than four months after raising over $14 million, Platinum Australia has raised a further $61.2 million to be applied to its Smokey Hills project in South Africa and acquisition opportunities.
Engineering company Monadelphous Group has secured a $170 million contract for major works on Woodside Petroleum's $12 billion Pluto liquefied natural gas project.
The federal government has defended stimulus payments to 16,000 dead people and 25,000 expats, worth a collective $40 million, saying it was "unavoidable".
Fortescue Metals Group will make an upfront payment of $32 million and restructure a shipping arrangement as part of a settlement to a dispute with a shipping company.
PLANS for a new beachside suburb 37 kilometres north of Perth, featuring a pedestrian- and cycle-oriented mixed-use village, are a step closer with Planning Minister John Day tabling a metropolitan region scheme amendment this week.
ARE the stars aligning for a dramatic overhaul to the approvals process which caused so much angst during the boom? As the government takes receipt of the first concrete advice from three different working groups, there is growing optimism within industry
A NUMBER of readers have asked me to explain how to go about finding share trading opportunities and what criteria I use to select stocks that might move rapidly in the share market.
THE senior executive team at Wesfarmers has agreed to a salary freeze for two years and will forego individual bonuses potentially worth a collective $4.5 million.
DURING the past four years, Cablelogic has grown from a small installation and service company into a mid-tier electrical, communications and renewable energy company serving commercial and industrial customers across the state.
WESTERN Australia continues to dominate the country's share of capital investment on advanced projects with latest figures showing the state accounted for more than 70 per cent of expenditure.
WOODSIDE Petroleum has entered a deal with Apache Corporation for the supply of gas from two Western Australian fields for a second processing train at its Pluto liquefied natural gas facility.
UTILISING the latest in technology while adhering to a simple, effective philosophy has given corporate travel outfit Globetrotter Corporate Travel a fruitful 30-year run in the competitive business travel management market.
IT is the time of year when the agribusiness marketing campaigns run hot, margin lenders boost their advertising spend and an array of exotic investment product spruikers start selling.
ILUKA Resources has received final regulatory approval for its $420 million Jacinth-Ambrosia mineral sands project in South Australia, which allows mining to begin.
THERE are all manner of adjectives used to describe the events surrounding the birth of a child; for fertility clinics, the word 'profitable' is one of them.
ELIZABETH and Ken Frankish have been Heart Foundation of WA donors for many years, but it wasn't until Elizabeth suffered a stroke at the age of 49 that they decided they wanted to do more for the charity through a bequest.
KEN Bowron (pictured) has been appointed as the new statutory head of EnergySafety WA. Mr Bowron was previously the general manager of regional businesses at Western Power.
