The City of Fremantle plans to transform the port city by redeveloping the tired east end and revitalising Kings Square and the adjacent Myer building in a move it's hoped will create an exciting retail mix to rival Garden City.
The rejuvenation of Fremantle's Booyeembara Park by North Fremantle-based landscape architects Ecoscape has won the firm a swag of awards at the state's inaugural Australian Institute of Landscape Architects awards.
Winemakers in the state's southern regions have joined their colleagues in the north by closing the chapter on vintage 2006. And what an interesting vintage it has been.
Because Sydneysider John Howard has won four elections – and his side seems set to win another – there's a tendency to attribute to him much that he simply doesn't, and never will, deserve.
Mortgage brokers could double their share of housing loans with the biggest winners likely to be the industry's big players such as Perth-based Australian Finance Group, a conference in Perth was told last week.
From a cheap early 1990s entry into a struggling gold explorer, Terry Streeter has built a $100 million base from which to launch a major international resources exploration and production house.
Western Areas NL's push to become Australia's next mid-tier nickel producer is expected to begin in the second half of this year, with production from its Flying Fox project at Forrestania rising to 13,500 tonnes a year in 2010.
Pilbara copper and nickel producer Fox Resources Ltd's major shareholder, Terry Streeter, has dropped a further $400,000 into the company's Whundo prospects following some spectacular zinc drilling results there.
Stretch marks are the bane of all women unlucky enough to develop them, but Fariba Fanaian has turned hers into a successful enterprise, marketing the natural stretch mark oil her mother and grandmother specially formulated for her, through the family bus
It took Anastasia Brotherson and her sisters, Tara and Sian, just five weeks to turn a concept for a women's wear label into a registered brand and retail store in Subiaco. That's not to say Aura Pregnant Sexy Motherwear hasn't presented a range of challe
The end to vintage 2006 can't come soon enough for winemakers in Margaret River and surrounding areas, but the end of harvest also gives the rest of us a chance to celebrate.
The debate over cork and stevlin may finally have been put to rest in Western Australia, but it has been enthusiastically replaced by argument over the merits of cleanskins – wine that is sold without a label, at a lower cost.
The city's retail sector is heating up with agents witnessing price increases of more than 20 per cent in less than a year for prime space in the Hay Street and Murray Street mall precincts.
Is it just me, or has the budget lost relevance these days? For months we've been primed by reports of surpluses, possible tax cuts and how families will be looked after.
A recent study has gone some way towards clarifying what makes the ‘typical' businesswoman in Australia as well as uncovering some of the potential barriers they face due to their gender.
The establishment of new firms, some prominent partner moves and a plentiful flow of new work have characterised the past year in Perth's legal fraternity.
Most people know of Pacman as an early computer game, but for takeover lawyers the term has been applied to the unusual circumstances surrounding the battle between Alinta and The Australian Gas Light Company.
Big corporate collapses such as Sons of Gwalia, EG Green Group, Henry Walker Eltin and most recently Westpoint Corporation have provided plenty of work for insolvency lawyers, but a much smaller deal has been hailed as the best restructuring of 2005.
Law firms Clayton Utz and Blakiston & Crabb have been at the forefront of one of the major trends in the mining industry in the past two years: the move to Canada by miners looking to raise large amounts of money.
When Western Power formally split into four separate businesses on April 1, it marked the end of a long-established reform plan by the state government.
A booming economy, militant construction unions and the biggest regulatory change in a century have combined to make workplace relations one of the busiest practice areas for Perth's law firms.
The rapid expansion of Western Australia's iron ore industry and the emergence of several aspiring producers have prompted the negotiation of an increasing number of joint venture agreements.
