THE Australian share market closed around 2.5 per cent weaker despite gains in resource giant BHP Billiton and a positive lead overnight from Wall Street.
IT was quite fitting that the chairman of state tourism body Australia's North West, Ian Laurance, was awarded the industry's top individual honour last week, an award named after one of his earliest mentors.
REAL estate agency, Realmark, believes that breaking away from a national franchise and rebranding have helped it weather the downturn in the property market.
CITIC Pacific Mining is on the recruitment drive for 100 workers across a variety of roles in a bid to get its Sino Iron magnetite project at Cape Preston in production by 2010.
KEITH Spence has been awarded the North West Shelf Gas and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia WA Gas Industry Development Award for 2008.
KEITH Spence has been awarded the North West Shelf Gas and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia WA Gas Industry Development Award for 2008.
THE state government has made a series of new appointments as it settles into power but the big question mark for industry is who will head three new important departments announced by Colin Barnett.
T HE ocean may be a major part of what makes the Perth lifestyle so attractive, but there seems to be a shortage of trendy, high capacity, upmarket hospitality venues using this great asset to complement their business.
Wesfarmers Ltd managing director Richard Goyder has boosted his stake in the company by 220,884 shares valued at almost $4 million through an on-market acquisition by the trustee of the plan on behalf
Wesfarmers Ltd managing director Richard Goyder has boosted his stake in the company by 220,884 shares valued at almost $4 million through an on-market acquisition by the trustee of the plan on behalf
WESTERN Australia will be among the first states targeted in the national roll-out of Origin Energy's domestic solar roof-top systems installation program.
COFFEY Geotechnics and Environments was the only Western Australian winner at the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia awards night held in Perth on November 28.
COFFEY Geotechnics and Environments was the only Western Australian winner at the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia awards night held in Perth on November 28.
The decision by three non-executive directors – chairman Peter Mansell, Jenny Seabrook and Mel Ward – to quit the board of WA’s biggest publisher en masse should not be a surprise.
A Senate inquiry into the Varanus Island gas crisis has split on party lines, with coalition senators calling for a judicial inquiry after the majority Labor members concluded the Carpenter government's reponse was adequate.
The state government has over-ruled the Esperance Port Authority, ordering it to continue bulk nickel concentrate shipments next year, while also approving the export of lead stockpiled at the port.
Receiver Ferrier Hodgson says it has started an urgent assessment into miner CopperCo, which stunned the market last week after appointing administrators.
The state government has lived up to an election promise to boost funding for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, announcing today that it would provide an extra $29.9 million from its Royalties for Regions scheme.
The National Australia Bank is urging Western Australian business owners to not become complacent about the future after a survey found 87 per cent of owners did not have a business plan.
