Dan Wilkie

Port Hedland’s Walkabout Hotel is set to undergo a $20 million, three stage redevelopment, which will upgrade hotel facilities and provide budget accommodation targeting both the industrial and tou

Neptune Marine has signed a framework agreement to provide sub-sea engineering services for BP in the UK.

Forge Group has bucked the trend of mining services providers downgrading expectations, forecasting a profit improvement in FY2013 of between 28 and 43 per cent.

Perth is Australia’s second fastest growing city, behind only the Gold Coast, but the new housing sector is not keeping up with demand, according to a new report.

Nickel miner Western Areas has launched a $65 million capital raising to provide greater fiscal flexibility as it continues to explore its opportunities in the state’s Forrestania region, south-eas

The Southern Metropolitan Regional Council has been forced to temporary close its waste composting facility in Canning Vale to complete upgrades to the plant’s odour management system.

The state government has officially put out the call for builders for its $900 million, 60,000 seat stadium to be built at Burswood.

Perth company Transaction Solutions International has received backing to the tune of $22 million from an Indian private equity group to fund the development of an ATM business on the sub-continent

Goodrich Resources has entered a $14.4 million deal to purchase the Ellendale diamond mine in the Kimberley from UK-based Gem Diamonds.

Perth housing was the standout performer among major capital cities in November, with values rising 1 per cent over the month, new research says.

Former Rockingham mortgage broker Mark Booty has been permanently banned from providing financial services or engaging in credit activities by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Cash Converters has announced a $32.7 million share placement to acquire franchise stores, open new corporate locations and finance its Australian and UK personal loans business.

Focus Minerals shareholders have resoundingly backed a $227.5 million investment in the gold miner by China’s Shandong Gold.

Base Resources has announced a plan to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market, in order to tap UK and European interest in its $US298 million Kwale mineral sands project in Kenya.

Northern Star Resources shares have slumped sharply on the ASX today, after the gold miner announced that its major shareholder and members of its board of directors had agreed to sell a combined 1

Gindalbie Metals has announced it will tap investors for $62 million to insulate it against continuing iron ore market volatility, as it ramps up production at the Karara magnetite project in the M

Transportable housing firm OTOC has been nominated to construct a $22.7 million processing centre at Nauru for the federal government.

Grange Resources has announced it will dramatically reduce spending and slash jobs at its Southdown magnetite iron ore project near Albany, the latest victim of continued uncertainty in commodities

The third and deciding Test against South Africa will be Ricky Ponting's last in the baggy green, with the mercurial former captain set to ride off into the sunset.

Renewable energy technology firm Carnegie Wave Energy has secured $5.8 million in funding from the government and the private sector.

Engineering contractor Norfolk Group says it will resume looking for a takeover partner at the end of the financial year after it was unable to secure a suitable offer from several interested parti

Residential land sales in the Perth and Mandurah area jumped by 14.2 per cent over the September quarter, with the Urban Development Institute of Australia saying falling mortgage rates are having

Perth-based explorers Windward Resources and Auroch Resources have dipped their toes into a tough IPO market, raising a combined $5 million through initial public offerings that closed today.

Privately-funded Alliance Mining Commodities has announced it will cost $812 million to develop its Koumbia bauxite project in Guinea, West Africa.

Continental Coal shares jumped by more than 20 per cent on the ASX today, after it announced first production from its Penumbra coal mine in South Africa.

Aphrodite Gold has received $2.5 million for its namesake gold project near Kalgoorlie from a Canadian investment house.

After spending much of the year as one of the strongest performing stocks on the ASX, Sirius Resources has become one of its most volatile.

Western Australia is currently at the forefront of global oil and gas activity, and international demand should ensure it will stay there for some time, one of Shell Australia’s top executives says

Perth’s residential land market is emerging from a substantial and extended downturn, with lot production expected to peak at more than 13,000 lots in 2014-2015, new research says.

Transportable housing manufacturer Fleetwood Corporation has warned of a weaker result in financial year 2013, the result of soft trading conditions in all of its key markets.

Board control at Murchison Metals is set to pass to corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley’s Mercantile Investment Company, after the incumbenet chairman and managing director said all parties agreed on

Finance Minister Simon O’Brien has announced around 10,000 square metres of state government office space will be moved to Joondalup.