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OPINION: WA is competing for skilled workers, but competitive salaries and opportunities will not be enough if they cannot afford to establish a life here.

Former Woodside Energy director Melinda Cilento has been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Monetary Policy Board, adding further WA resources experience to the rate-setting panel.

Optimism for another bumper crop is fading as dry weather and frost impacts parts of Western Australia's grain belt.

A report by the Productivity Commission has denounced the current GST distribution system, calling it “perverse”, only of benefit to Western Australia and leaving the federal government with an “open-ended fiscal liability".

Belmont-based NRW Holdings has continued its working relationship with Stockland Development in Queensland.

The Nedlands-based developer has bought a Colin Street building for $4.88 million, with a view to converting it to luxury apartments.

WA iron deposits could soon power a clean energy breakthrough, according to new research from Edith Cowan University.

Equus Energy has executed a decade-long gas supply deal with project backer Alcoa, making the state's largest domestic gas user its foundation customer.

New locomotives ready to take to WA's freight rail network are equipped with “world-leading” lighting and will play a key role in delivering the state's bumper crops to market.

Since Basketball WA's decision to host NBL1 West grand finals at RAC Arena, crowds in excess of 6,000 people and viewership records have followed.

Mark Pownall is joined by Isabel Vieira, Nadia Budihardjo and Claire Tyrrell to talk about the big events of the week in WA business and politics.

Levies will remain in place on Australian goods to the US for now, but the prime minister says Donald Trump will consider scrapping the measure on its ally.

The S&P 500 has notched a ‌record-high close, fuelled by advances in Sandisk and other heavyweight technology stocks, as tame producer price inflation data supported expectations the Federal ‌Reserve will not raise interest rates at its September meeting.

Investors rush to ETFs amid property slump

Perth-based medtech firm OncoRes Medical has named a finalist for a Prix Galien Award, a WA first in an award widely regarded as the Nobel Prize equivalent for the life sciences sector.

A senior communities asset manager, ASX-listed Eureka Group Holdings, is in the process of acquiring Mandurah Coastal Holiday Park for $18.4 million, in a deal comprising 168 dwellings with approval for a further 66 homes to be built.

Live performance hub The Blue Room Theatre builds for the future.

Ella Loneragan and Nadia Budihardjo discuss new developments at the Blue Room Theatre.

Australia's share market has fallen for a second session, as a handful of soft earnings results and a sell-down in Commonwealth Bank and mining stocks dragged on the exchange.

OPINION: It's time everybody faced up to a simple reality about Australia's housing affordability crisis.

Finbar is one step closer to building apartments in West Leederville after an assessment panel's tick of approval, with the developer estimating the project's end value at $265 million.

The ASX-listed logistics and transport services company has announced it is set to purchase a 2.7-hectare site in the tightly held industrial suburb of Welshpool, looking to relocate its interstate transport business after redeveloping the land.

Zoran Bebic-led Monadelphous has secured a suite of construction and maintenance-based contracts across multiple sectors.

Change across senior leadership management positions throughout WA's football industry has continued.

The Pentagon's top policy official says Australia is successfully executing its post-Aukus review roadmap, pointing to WA's SRF-West as a standout example of the work being done.

OPINION: Water security is one of the most important long-term challenges facing Western Australia, and it will only become more critical as our population, economy and industries continue to grow.

UPDATED: Northern Star Resources chair Michael Chaney has rebuffed demands from the miner's activist shareholder, while announcing a new director for the under-fire board.

UPDATE: VGW will "strongly defend" claims made against Laurence Escalante and the company by Perth-based financial services players chasing $60 million over an alleged breach of contract.

Michael Finnegan-led Macmahon Holdings has continued its push into New South Wales, after securing a roadworks-based early works contract.

A non-invasive test for Endometriosis developed by a Perth company, which can detect the disease with 99.7 per cent accuracy, has been granted an Australian patent.

Plastic waste in Timor-Leste will be used to build public infrastructure, after Perth-based Hyperion Systems moved to deploy its 'factory-in-a-box' overseas for the first time.

A multibillion-dollar deal to rescue Australia's largest aluminium smelter has brought "enormous relief" to thousands of workers and an end to months of crisis negotiations.