Metals-focussed Mamba Exploration has had a strong start to trading, with its share price closing up 52 per cent ahead of a planned exploration program in Western Australia.
Government research organisation ANSTO, Qantas and Perth Children's Hospital have synced their operations to bring a dose of Iodine 123 from Japan to the hospital today.
In today's COVID-19 Wrap, Perth, Peel and South West regions prepare for life out of lockdown, the national cabinet meets to discuss hotel quarantine, and businesses compensated.
The cap on international travellers, the efficacy of the hotel quarantine system and the ever-changing risks posed by the coronavirus were discussed at the national cabinet meeting.
Fringe World Festival shows will begin from 7pm tonight while Perth Festival has been postponed another week, until February 15, under advice from the state government.
The Liberal Party has criticised the state government's $500 credit for small businesses affected by the five-day lockdown, saying it falls well short.
Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed Western Australia recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 overnight, giving the green light to transition out of the five-day lockdown.
Swick Mining Services has postponed the demerger of its mineral technology business, Orexplore, resulting in the abrupt resignation of the subsidiary's managing director.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has taken the extraordinary step of publicly acknowledging it should have communicated recent executive changes to the PKKP people in a more collaborative way.
Western Australia's oldest fresh food markets has welcomed tenants to its new $8.4 million building, part of a 20-year masterplan for the 51-hectare Canning Vale property.
More than a third of WA's small businesses reported a loss in revenue due to the first wave of COVID-19 infections, according to Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre.
From 6pm tomorrow, several of WA's COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted as part of the state's transition out of the five-day lockdown, but masks will remain mandatory.
Negotiations over the government's media code has reached the highest levels, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison having a "constructive" meeting with Google's global boss.
In today's COVID-19 Wrap, WA records its fourth day with no new locally acquired cases, State Disaster Council set to meet and the vaccine rollout on track for February.
As firefighters attempt to contain an out-of-control blaze in Perth's east, the state's peak resources body has established an initiative to raise much-needed funds.
Local lithium play Vulcan Energy Resources has secured a cornerstone investment from Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting, as part of a $120 million placement.
Mark McGowan will need more than high iron ore prices, federal sugar-hits and COVID-stimulus packages if he wins re-election in March, writes Josh Adamson.
Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has demanded the state government reveal how it plans to ease the restrictions beyond tomorrow, saying the lack of clarity had caused chaos and confusion.
Western Australia's five-day lockdown restrictions are on track to be eased at 6pm tomorrow after the state recorded no new locally acquired cases today.
WA's five-day lockdown has won the endorsement of an academic whose modelling was instrumental to the state government's much-lauded initial response to COVID-19.
