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THE National Australia Bank has signed a 10-year lease to open a one of a kind branch at the former Red Rooster premises in the Murray Street Mall later this year.

Globally, high-capacity broadband is the infrastructure on which 21st century business will be built.

FROM a sailing career that began at age 16 on the STS Leeuwin to becoming the first female and youngest ever offshore installation manager of an oil-producing facility, Suzannah Vaughan (pictured right) packed a lot into life.

AS Local Government Minister John Castrilli continues to advocate mergers of local councils, some councils that have already undergone amalgamation say local communities feared the loss of a town's cultural identity.

Major players face off in north-west access stoush.

Has the government superannuation fund GESB's mutualisation stalled for good?

Labor's state election loss last year may have changed the way the party works in WA forever.

Recent deals by Patersons draw parallels with Hartley Poynton 10 years ago. Mark Pownall looks at how the market has changed since then.

THE fallout from the global financial crisis has left many big investors with red faces as poor due diligence or undue risk taking has been exposed by the seismic wrenching in the financial system.

WESTERN Australian tourism operators are increasingly looking at online strategies to attract business during the downturn.

DESPITE the downturn in the economy, fitness enthusiasts will still pay extra for personal training, according to industry experts.

Extensive, untouched coal reserves and increasing demand for power generation makes Tanzania an attractive prospect for WA miners.

The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.

IN what is already being pegged as the biggest office leasing deal of the year, Chevron has signed a 10-year lease agreement for the entire 14-level Dynons Plaza office tower.

This year's 1st Amongst Equals winner, David Flanagan, sees himself as part of a new generation of mining entrepreneurs.

UNIONS and employer groups have become unlikely allies in jointly resisting the federal government's proposed model for occupational health and safety reform.

ast year, the world changed in a meaningful and substantial way, but most of us have not yet begun to grasp the nature of changes now in store.

THREE Western Australian companies servicing the resource sector have managed to defy the economic downturn to report record sales and profits in the half-year to December 2008.

A DIRECTOR at Compass Hotel Group has bought shares at a very favourable rate compared to the company's initial public offer price some 13 months ago.

Congratulation to WA's Top Young Acheivers.

BUSINESS owners could save millions of dollars updating plant and equipment through legislation being drafted by the federal government.

DESPITE the doom and gloom coming from the state's mining sector, the January Deloitte WA Index revealed stock values of miners rose more than 3 per cent, bucking the overall trend.

RUSSELL Collins is an overachiever by any measure, but he'd be the last person to ever give himself that label.

An impairment charge to its New Zealand business and reduced levels in funds under management, administration or advice has impacted Plan B Group's earnings, which fell 52 per cent.

Shares in Fortescue Metals Group have surged as much as 25 per cent today as the iron ore miner confirms it has been in talks with companies from China and the UK over investment opportunities.

Extract Resources has revealed that Rio Tinto has boosted its interest in dissident shareholder Kalahari Minerals, as its shares soared nearly 40 per cent over the past five trading days.

The falling Australian dollar has impacted Schaffer Corporation's bottom line with the industrial company today reporting a 42 per cent drop in its interim net profit.

Shares in Mincor Resources have risen as the nickel miner commits to a dividend payout despite posting its first ever loss in eight years.

Perth-based Arafura Resources has become the latest miner to sign an investment deal with a Chinese company, which has agreed to inject at least $8 million in return for a major shareholding.

Shares in Aspen Group have climbed higher as the property developer reveals a slight downward adjustment to the value of its investment portfolio.

China's next targets: rail, roads, ports; Receivers poised as lender moves on vanadium miner; Rio to Rudd: jobs in danger; $646m loss changes landscape for Mirvac; Aboriginal jobs scheme mired in bureaucracy: Forrest

Stirling Resources has expanded its resources investments with a $4.8 million investment in the assets of collapsed mineral sands miner, Matilda Minerals.