Border closures and skills shortages have hit state government plans to recruit new approvals officers, with the opposition's Tjorn Sibma saying the challenges had been kept secret.
The Ocean Beach Hotel owner has shaken off the council's opposition to his proposed $220 million facelift, with the state government's peak planning body to assess it in the coming months.
On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalists Jordan Murray and Matt Mckenzie talk about why record inflation shouldn't be a mystery to onlookers.
The Australian share market is down for its third consecutive day, this time with tech stocks and the banking sector hit after Tuesday's commodities sell-off.
Fiore Group has lost its bid to hold on to the $15 million Peppermint Grove heritage home it tried to buy from pearl farmer Lyndon Brown, ending a two-and-a-half year settlement debacle.
Inflated flower costs and nearly two years without large-scale events have forced prominent Perth florist Matthew Landers to shut his business after 15 years in operation.
Labor dominated Facebook and Instagram feeds across WA last week, trumping the Liberal Party's social media advertising outlay in the state by a nearly two-to-one margin.
On today's episode of At Close of Business, senior journalist Claire Tyrrell traces the life and times of Cath Hart through her regional Queensland upbringing to leading the Real Estate Institute's state division.
The ASX has suffered its worst session since the start of the war in Ukraine, with miners and oil producers sharply lower following China's COVID outbreak.
Leichhardt Industrial's $280 million solar salt project in the Pilbara has received a major boost, with Melbourne's billionaire Smorgon family buying a 20 per cent stake in the project.
