Dan Wilkie

A joint venture between Parsons Brinckerhoff and AECOM will partner with the Department of Transport to develop a business case for the $1.9 billion Metro Area Express light rail proposal.

Perth-based coal explorer Ascot Resources has secured $1 million in funding from engineering and minerals processing group Sedgman, which will emerge as Ascot's largest shareholder.

The widespread slowdown in exploration spending has driven down drilling fluids and equipment supplier Imdex's earnings, with the company lodging a 59 per cent drop in net profit for the 2013 finan

Gold miner Reed Resources has launched a full review of its operations after seeking a voluntary suspension of its shares, one trading day after its Meekatharra gold project was placed into adminis

Technology group ASG has announced a new strategic partnership with engineering and construction contractor Clough.

Neptune Marine has announced it will consolidate its Australian operations into a single purpose-built location in Welshpool.

The state government has provided a further $26 million to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research's Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.

Battling vanadium miner Atlantic has secured an additional $20 million in high interest debt to fund continued development at its Windimurra mine in the Mid West.

Engineering and construction contractor Calibre Group says it is poised to maintain its earnings in financial year 2014 after reporting a 34 per cent fall in net profit in FY2013.

The University of Western Australia has moved up the world's most respected university rankings for the sixth consecutive year, to be ranked fourth in Australia and 91st worldwide.

Shares in Elemental Minerals jumped by more than 10 per cent on the Australian Securities Exhange today, after the explorer announced it had won a mining licence for its Sintoukola potash project i

Nickel miner Mincor says it is well placed to capitalise on a turnaround in the nickel market, even as the miner slumped to a loss of more than $20 million for the 2013 financial year.

Vanadium hopeful TNG has moved to cut costs, slashing all directors' fees and management salaries by between 10 and 20 per cent, and cutting five jobs in Western Australia and the Northern Territor

Matrix Composites & Engineering says the worst is behind it after recording a $2.9 million loss for the year ended June 30, a significant improvement on the previous year.

Qantas has announced it will fly twice-weekly between Auckland and Perth over the holiday season.

Tox Free Solutions' full-year profit has dropped by 13 per cent, with a series of one-off impairments souring an otherwise solid year of growth for the Perth-based waste management firm.

Construction and mining services giant Leighton Holdings has reported a significant lift in half-year profit, a result which was boosted by the $620 million sale of its telecommunications assets ea

The federal government has promised $22 million for seven new trade training centres at schools in Western Australia, part of Labor's 10-year, $2.5 billion program aimed at boosting trade education.

Diversified conglomerate Wesfarmers has announced it will pitch in to help construct the proposed ANZAC Interpretive Centre in Albany.

Pluton Resources shares leapt on the ASX today after the iron ore junior announced former Grange Resources boss Richard Mehan had been appointed chairman.

Transport and warehousing company CTI Logistics has raised $5.6 million to fund equipment acquisitions for new projects.

New home building in Western Australia is set for a strong recovery, driven by the recent increase in first home owner grants and record low interest rates, a housing industry lobby group says.

Perth-based bank machine distributor Ezeatm has begun legal proceedings against its former boss and co-founder, Todd Zani, who was ousted from the company in June.

Development and construction firm Diploma Group has gone to the market with a discounted placement and rights issue, to raise $9.1 million to pay down debts and increase working capital.

Amcom Telecommunications has recorded its 11th year of net profit growth of more than 20 per cent, booking a 23 per cent rise in net profit for the year to June 30.

Base Metals miner Kagara has cancelled the sale of half its remaining Queensland assets after negotiations with the purchaser, which failed to come up with $6 million in deposits for the projects i

Range Resources has finalised the sale of its producing oil and gas assets in Texas for $US30 million.

Efforts to boost residential and commercial development in Port Hedland have hit a hurdle, with the state environmental regulator rejecting a proposal to re-zone industrial land over concerns regar

Mines Minister Bill Marmion says Toro Energy's acquisition of a uranium project in close proximity to its proposed yellowcake mine at Wiluna is a significant step forward for the sector.

The state government has gone back on its decision to slash by half the amount paid to households that feed solar power into Western Australia's energy grid.

A Perth-based businessman has pleaded guilty to insider trading relating to the takeover of MacArthur Coal by US-based Peabody Energy Corporation in 2011.

Metallurgical Corporation of China has been ordered by a Singapore-based arbitrator to place $80 million into an escrow account pending the determination of a dispute with Cape Lambert Resources ov