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ANALYSIS: Australian businesses have spent years trying to get more women into management. The latest evidence suggests that effort is working.

Three weeks in, new Northern Star Resources chief executive Suresh Vadnagra is on a learning mission around the potential and challenges facing the business he leads.

The family behind WA Limestone has purchased prominent developer Blackburne's former West Perth headquarters for $11.5 million.

Capricorn Space says demand for services from its satellite ground station near Mingenew has grown so rapidly that the company will now double its footprint.

Nationals' leader Shane Love has pleaded for stronger action to be taken against the man behind a Western Australian house relocation business, which he says has cost customers more than $6 million.

Queensland-focused AIC Mines has reaffirmed its FY27 annual production guidance despite disruptions during the September 2026 quarter.

A $41 billion off-grid renewable energy precinct and data centre proposed in the Kimberley has taken a major step forward, with proponents referring the project for federal environmental review.

UPDATE: Greg Poland fails with application to subpoena senior Liberal Party figures in Nine defamation action.

The state government will seek to free up significant western suburbs land by upgrading a wastewater facility in Shenton Park, confirming exclusive reporting by Business News in June.

State MPs are questioning their own security arrangements after a man carrying a martial arts weapon threatened staff inside the office of Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley.

Fortescue has warned China's bargaining tactics could force the miner to reduce iron ore operations by the end of the year.

The appointment of superannuation heavyweight Ben Palmer marked the arrival of a new funds manager.

Debate over how best to use the foreshore of Albany's Princess Royal Harbour has gone on for years.

Weeks after the Firmus IPO flop, a WA goldminer's return to the ASX is a good news story for the local market and a patient group of investors.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq has led Wall Street to a higher close after quarterly results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer improved investor appetite ‌for artificial intelligence-related stocks, weakness in communications services stocks capped gains.

Rate rise bets jump after RBA warns of ‘materially worse' inflation

The apartment developer is optimistic about the outlook for Perth, amid a dip in housing prices.

Disability support provider Rocky Bay has announced its chief executive and managing director for more than two decades, Michael Tait, is stepping down.

Police have arrested an armed man who confronted staff inside the electorate office of Victoria Park MP and government minister Hannah Beazley.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has appointed Perth local and former CFMEU executive Emma Kingdon as its new president-elect, replacing Michele O'Neil at the peak body.

Mark Pownall speaks to Justin Fris about Business News' recent fund managers feature.

The Australian share market has crept higher, shaking off hawkish comments by a Reserve Bank official that gave fresh hints a Melbourne Cup Day rate hike is a real possibility.

FROM THE HILL: You don't need a university degree to know student politics isn't for the faint hearted.

Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti has weighed into commercial negotiations between WA Football and competing football manufacturers as the peak body weighs a move away from Burley - its football of choice for 120 years.

OPINION: Recent accelerator program shows the value of a flexible approach in delivering a market need.

OPINION: The value of a university degree is up to the student, and they need options to understand that better.

Perth-based venture capital firm has launched its second fund, citing demand for capital.

New players are emerging in the small WA sector, but most remain boutique by national standards

Shares in Locksley Resources closed trade up 8 per cent, following news from the junior's Tottenham copper project.

Concerns of a Melbourne Cup interest rate hike have been stoked by Reserve Bank of Australia warnings of a material deterioration in the inflation outlook.

The state's largest private land developer is persisting with the controversial Perth hills project.

Former state opposition leader Zak Kirkup has been called in as a witness to an ongoing defamation trial between businessman Greg Poland, former journalists and politician Andrew Hastie.