Isabel Vieira

Global mining services group Perenti has started the search for a new chief executive after Mark Norwell announced he would be stepping down next year.

Another director has resigned from Mineral Resources' diminished board, which chair Malcolm Bundey is rebuilding with two recruits ahead of Chris Ellison's planned exit.

State government–owned Synergy has revealed it accepted more than $40 million worth of erroneous payments into 170,000 closed customer accounts over a period of 16 years.

Administrators have taken control of one of the state's biggest disability therapy service providers and its 14 branches, as a sale of the business is urgently assessed.

Carmaker Ford has halved its spodumene order from Liontown Resources, with the lithium miner afforded another year before its $300 million loan repayments fall due.

Veteran mining entrepreneur Bill Beament's Develop Global has unveiled a revised $329 million plan to develop a 1.5 million tonne per annum zinc-copper operation in the Pilbara.

Eastern Goldfields miner Lynas Rare Earths has shaken hands with a US manufacturer to build a non-China supply chain for rare earth magnets, with defence customers to be given top priority.

Trading platform Cboe Australia has gained approval from the corporate watchdog to list new companies on its rival exchange, as the ASX faces a sharp slowdown in IPOs.

The state's environmental umpire is recommending approval for BHP's proposal to expand its Jimblebar Hub to sustain the major Pilbara iron ore operation.

Renowned restaurateur Nic Trimboli and property magnate Adrian Fini have again joined forces to develop a new Italian-inspired boutique hotel in Fremantle's historic West End.

The mining sector paid more tax than all other sectors combined for a third consecutive year, led by iron ore heavyweights Rio Tinto and BHP with their multi-billion-dollar tax bills for 2023-24.

The state government is tipping $55.7 million into a new agriculture research and development facility in Jandakot, alongside leasing a 5-hectare site in Wanneroo for field research.

An east coast investment firm has bought Brighton Village for $25.3 million, marking Colliers' second Perth neighbourhood shopping centre transaction within 12 months.

Argonaut's full-year profit surged to $15.5 million, fueled by a sharp rise in corporate finance fees amid a busy year of gold sector capital raisings and transactions.

Seven West Media and Southern Cross Media have shaken hands on a merger under which Kerry Stokes would step down as chairman of the board by early next year.

Fortescue is buying 400 more zero-emission haul trucks for its Pilbara operations, amid a series of deals with Chinese green technology developers and an acquisition of a Spanish renewables firm.

Private mining services contractor Thiess has secured further mining and asset management work at Fortescue's Iron Bridge magnetite mine in the Pilbara.

Buyers from around the world have flown in for the third and final tender of Rio Tinto's highly coveted Argyle pink diamonds from WA, alongside flawless Canadian diamonds.

Liontown Resources has posted a $193 million loss in its first set of full-year results since bringing its Kathleen Valley lithium mine into production.

Woodside Energy has shaken hands with a state-owned Turkish oil and gas company for a long-term LNG supply deal from its under-construction US$17.5 billion Louisiana project in the US.

Kailis Hospitality Group is investing $12 million into acquiring and developing 1,000 square metres of beachfront hospitality real estate at Sorrento.

WA's largest Indigenous-owned contractor Warrikal has secured a significant maintenance package with Hancock Iron Ore, bolstering its relationship with the iron ore heavyweight.

Mineral Resources chair Malcolm Bundey has moved to reassure investors that Chris Ellison was "not involved" in deliberations to acquire his brother's collapsed Resource Development Group.

Andrew Forrest's private mining vehicle is now the operator of a half-built rare earths project, having cemented its controlling stake in the deal with Hastings Technology Metals.

The Tianqi Lithium and IGO joint venture behind the underperforming Kwinana lithium refinery has poured further funds into the asset after awarding a $4 million contract.

Perth's P&N Bank and the Brisbane-based Great Southern Bank are in early-stage merger talks that could create a $30 billion customer-owned banking heavyweight.

Self-portraitist Jenny Rodgerson has taken home the prestigious Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture at the annual Lester Prize awards night hosted at the WA Museum Boola Bardip.

Synergy has swung into the red with a $779 million loss after wiping the value of its coal-fired assets to zero and reporting a cost blowout in its decommissioning estimates.

The Mid West Ports Authority's proposed $350 million marine infrastructure upgrades that could support the rollout of renewable projects has been greenlit by the state's environmental umpire.

The award-winning Swan Valley distiller has entered voluntary administration, leaving its ambitious “cathedral of gin” project and hundreds of investors facing an uncertain future.

The federal government has set a target to slash emissions by between 62 per cent and 70 per cent by 2035, in a move Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describes as ambitious but achievable.

BHP will come to the bargaining table over pay and conditions for some of its Port Hedland port employees, in a move the Western Mineworkers Alliance described as “long overdue”.