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Last week, we tried to look at the nuts and bolts of the taxi industry, which has been struggling under a yoke of over-regulation for at least a decade.

Million dollar salary packages are becoming increasingly common in Western Australia, WA Business News's fourth annual remuneration survey has found.

Aquila Resources and Paladin Resources provide stunning examples of the huge value that can flow from share options when companies achieve large and sustained increases in their share price.

Almost half of Western Australian homebuyers will do so without a partner even though affordability remains low, according to a survey.

Here at WA Business News, we like to think of ourselves as the thinking person's media.

Iconic smallgoods producer D'Orsogna typifies the challenges facing food manufacturers in WA, which are refining their strategies in response to an increasingly competitive market.

The past year has been a tough period for some of Western Australia's best-known food manufacturers.

Rockingham is shaking off its industrial image with a massive council works program and a number of residential and commercial developments concentrated on its foreshore precinct.

The town of South Hedland is about to get a $50 million dose of urban renewal from the state government's New Living Program.

Secrets, as we are seeing graphically in Perth today, only have one purpose: betrayal.

Demand is mounting from some industry sectors for the allocation of additional places in education and training courses as the skills shortage bites businesses statewide.

It's on again; the biggest and most keenly awaited wine event on the local calendar – the Margaret River Wine Region Festival.

Hard on the heels of its impressive five-star rating in the 2007 edition of James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion, Millbrook Winery is celebrating again, with its Estate Shiraz Viognier receiving a top 100 award at the 2007 Sydney International Wine

There were several reasons State Scene attended day one of the Corruption and Crime Commission hearings focusing upon the behaviour of Claremont-based company, Canal Rocks Pty Ltd, owners of a 45.3 hectares tract adjacent Smith's Beach at Yallingup.

DISGRACED minister Norm Marlborough was sacked from cabinet this week, after an investigation by the CCC revealed secret communication between Mr Marlborough and former premier Brian Burke.

Norm Marlborough and Brian Burke

Northbridge-based Leisure and Allied Industries continues to expand its operations in Asia, having recently secured one of India's largest retail department store chains as a partner.

It is with a great deal of caution that I wade in to comment on the current Corruption and Crime Commission matter relating to the proposed Canal Rocks development at Smiths Beach in the Shire of Busselton.

Often viewed as relics of another era co-operatives may benefit from proposals to give them far more flexibility.

Caxton Co-operative was developed by five like-minded WA Snap Printing franchise holders as a way of growing their individual businesses by collectively investing in equipment to expand of their services.

The draft Co-operatives Bill 2006 will regulate the formation, registration and operation of co-operatives in Western Australia.

The State Administrative Tribunal's recent approval of an $80 million 12-storey development for Hawthorne Place in Burswood has set the wheels in motion for a transformation of the Causeway precinct.

The upward movement in official interest rates has affected confidence among potential borrowers in Western Australia, according to figures from the Department of Land Information.

Like drunks at a party, speculative share traders always say there is time for one more round before quitting.

With the issue of carbon emissions firmly on the national agenda, a not-for-profit group in Perth is encouraging members of the public to reduce their carbon footprint.

A group of the most influential hoteliers in the country sat in Sydney's Hilton Hotel recently and confirmed what many of Perth's Sunday session devotees and midweek revellers already knew; the Brisbane Hotel is the best hotel in the country.

Howard Park seems to be giving itself all the presents as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Current parliamentary moves to impose daylight saving upon Western Australians shows just how many state MPs have little regard for democratic principles and processes.

AUSTRALIA'S major ports have witnessed an increase in stevedoring unit costs and revenues while productivity has fallen, according to an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report releas

Perth-based engineering and development company GRD Ltd gold spinoff OceanaGold Ltd has successfully completed its merger with NSW-based Climax Mining Ltd.

The Labor government led by former ABC journalist Alan Carpenter is doing its level best to put the Paul Omodei-led Liberal opposition into power.

Just in case anyone mistakes my cynicism last week about daylight saving suddenly having emerged on the political agenda, it was the process, not the outcome, I was commenting on.