In an effort to combat an industry shortage of metallurgical technicians, Central Tafe has introduced a cadetship program offering on-the-job and formal training.
Two not-for-profit organisations, The McCusker Foundation for Alzheimer's Research and Alzheimer's Australia WA, have teamed up to launch a campaign to assist Alzheimer's and dementia sufferers.
The votality that has characterised the financial markets this year has bred anxiety across the country, but caution may be a more apt term for WA, where its largely business as usual.
After years of deadlock with the state government, the proponent of a private port in Cockburn Sound is hoping a management change will restore life to the project.
After 15 years in the business, Perth catering company Fingerfood Catering has launched an online catering web site, believed to be the first of its kind in WA.
More than 20 years after it was established in WA, Burswood-based town planning and project management firm, Koltasz Smith, has been bought by UK-based environmental consultancy RPS Group plc.
Petroleum is WA's biggest export earner and if the discussions at this week's Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference are any guide, oil and gas projects are set to make an even bigger contribution in the future.
Stock market volatility has put a dampener on the number of Western Australian companies that floated during the March quarter, but surprisingly, the amount of funds raised was 75 per cent higher than in the same period last year.
ARC Energy Ltd managing director Eric Streitberg has been awarded the gas industry's highest award, the Reg Sprigg Medal for outstanding service to the industry.
Perth-based Nkwe Platinum Ltd has chosen to list on London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, marking a change from the flurry of Australian resource companies turning their attention, and their pockets, towards Canada.
TAKEOVER target Midwest Corporation Ltd has announced a 10-week delay in completion of its pre-feasibility study for its flagship Weld Range iron ore project in the Mid West region, because of delays
Western Power has responded to the skilled labour shortages and rising costs in Western Australia by adopting a fundamentally different approach to its contracting and capital works program.
Two Western Australian mining companies have warmed to the idea of heading to the Arctic north, with Greenland becoming the main focus for Ironbark Gold Ltd and Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I
LEAD miner Magellan Metals Pty Ltd has responded to criticism of its role in cleaning up lead contamination in Esperance by asserting that the Esperance Port Authority should take the lead role.
Bibra Lake, Jandakot and Kwinana are expected to be among the strongest performing surburbs in Perth's industrial land market over the long term, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.
THE management of Perth Airport has committed to releasing its redevelopment plans by the end of the month after Premier Alan Carpenter criticised the private owners for failing to respond to congesti
Regarded by many as a prime spot to house one of Western Australia's biggest arts organisations, the former ABC studios site on Adelaide Terrace instead appears likely to be sold to property developers.
Visiting WA; Dave Snowden, founder and chief scientific officer, Cognitive Edge, UK, to speak at Global Convergence: Answers to Management and Compliance on May 1.
The Western Australian Cricket Association's master plan for a redevelopment of its grounds – which would allow buildings as tall as the existing light towers in some areas – has been directed back to the drawing board by the City of Perth, due to a lack
Kerry Stokes knows how to fire-up imaginations; right now, he's got the whole of Western Australia and a fair bit of the rest of the country speculating on what he's really up to with his high-profile push to spill the board of WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd.
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