WA regional ports' executive management and their boards are overseeing major expansions, planning for trade in new commodities, and negotiating rural industry setbacks.
WHILE most ports are “steaming along very nicely”, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan acknowledges she and some port authorities have faced several difficult situations in the past two years.
MIRVAC Fini will sponsor an annual art event in order to develop links between its new Quay West Resort Bunker Bay development and the Margaret River art world.
THE Western Australian Wine Industry Association and Anglicare are two of the 21 organisations to receive State Government funding geared towards the promotion of growth and job prospects in regional WA.
THE City of Perth proposal to sink all the railway lines in Northbridge is now available to the public in the recently launched document, Realising a New Vision for Perth.
MATSURI Restaurant owner Yutaka Takeuchi has reopened his site at 900 Hay Street as a takeaway store and is evaluating other retail sites in the CBD for similar concepts.
With ideal conditions for the gathering of the white grape, David Pike, on duty for the 2003 vintage, turns his mind to his favourite white grape – the chardonnay.
IT research firm META Group envisages good growth for its services in WA and has appointed a full-time regional WA manager, Geoff Large, who is charged with developing the group's presence in WA.
SEVERAL independent supermarkets have launched a campaign to reduce the number of plastic shopping bags their stores use each year in light of the proposed 25-cent plastic bag levy.
MOST of Perth's top real estate agents held their ground in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003, with little change recorded among the top 20 agents from the previous year.
PERTH hospitality guru David Weinman has been commissioned by The Marketing Pepper Board of Malaysia to promote Sarawak pepper across the globe. And what better place to start than in his home town, Perth?
The dawn is rising on another vintage and, as David Pike discovers, it could be a pretty good one.
IT has approached that time of the year when I get to see dawn on a daily basis.
ONE sixth of Western Australian farmers are planning to shift some or all of their business from their main bank over the next 12 months, a new study has found.
MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA's grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
ELEVEN years ago, a small group of WA farmers shook up the State's fertiliser market when they started undercutting the big players with cheap imports.
DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
ALCOA watchers would have had a fascinating few days last week.
The company's Australian-born executive vice president John Pizzey was here for a few days and did some high profile presentations.
ELECTORAL Affairs Minister Jim McGinty's decision to embark on a costly High Court challenge to the weighting of WA's rural electorates provides a suitable opportunity to revisit this issue.
THE creation of a vibrant village atmosphere is the impetus behind the waterfront piazza-style development for Port Bouvard's Northport precinct approved last year.
