Kym Fuhrmann

Woodside and Chevron have announced further gas discoveries in their Western Australian projects.

Australia's corporate watchdog has banned three WA company directors, previously involved in IT, cleaning and plastering from managing corporations for between two and five years.

The peak body for the state's mining and petroleum sector has called on the federal parties to support policies that secure the long-term international competitiveness of the industry.

Western Australia's unemployment rate rose 0.4 per cent last month to 4.4 per cent, following the national trend.

CBH Group expects to announce its preferred governance model at a shareholders meeting next month after a resolution to change its structure was quashed.

JOB prospects for University of Western Australia graduates held firm during the global financial crisis, but it wasn’t as easy for graduates from the state’s other universities to find employment, according to the latest edition of The Good Universities

WESFARMERS and Sundance Resources are among seven of Australia’s top-listed companies to have appointed women to their boards during the past two months, helping lift the proportion of female directors on ASX 200 companies to almost 10 per cent.

Just one day after Tony Sage's Cape Lambert Resources took a significant stake in Chameleon Mining, the company has suspended trading of its shares because of the 'purported' appointment of a receiver.

The peak bodies representing the state's building and property industry have welcomed the passing through state parliament of legislation to reform the planning approvals process.

Padbury Mining has called a general meeting for September 8 after a group of dissident shareholders, led by Denis McInerney, gained the support of enough shareholders to force the meeting and push for a board spill.

Premier Colin Barnett's top bureaucrat Peter Conran will chair a steering committee including Richard Muirhead, Mark Barnaba, Sue Ash and Lisa Scaffidi in the lead up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth in October 2011.

The Salaries and Allowances Tribunal has awarded WA politicians a 4.3 per cent pay rise to cover a two-year period from 2008.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has spent the day in Perth where she visited an Armadale primary school and announced schools and teachers will be given cash incentives under a rewards program for improvement and quality teaching.

Paladin Energy's $27 million off-market scrip offer for Niger-focused uranium explorer NGM Resources is in danger after it was revealed Deutsche Securities Australia has acquired a 10.7 per cent stake in NGM.

Perth company AnaeCo has announced Infrastructure Fund Manager, Palisade Investment Partners, has given in-principle approval to fund construction of an expanded waste treatment facility at Shenton Park.

The interim review of the Federal Government's schools building stimulus program only received eight complaints about WA schools from almost 1400 WA projects that received funding.

The High Court has ruled that parts of the Electoral Act are unconstitutional opening the way for an extra 100,000 people to vote on 21 August.

Perth accounting firm BDO has more than doubled the size of its corporate and international tax service taking over PKF Perth's tax division.

The population of central Perth has risen by 80 per cent over the past five years according to the latest regional population figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Coalition announced its health policy today, while Labor's election campaign continued to be dominated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

CBH Group shareholders have voted against a resolution to change the governance of the grain handling and marketing cooperative.

Federal Labor has announced it will maintain funding to private schools until at least 2014, while the Coalition has announced a plan to increase workforce participation by people over 50.

The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has released a list of local issues it wants the Coalition and Labor to deal with in the last 17 days of the federal election campaign.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is still refusing to accept an offer of a second debate with Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the economy.

Australian retail trade rose by just 0.2 per cent in June while building approvals fell 3.3 per cent in the same month.

Strategic Airlines has launched an interstate and international service out of Port Hedland, offering flights to Brisbane and Denpasar.

Property developer David McKenzie has been cleared of knowingly giving false evidence to the Crime and Corruption Commission over the controversial Smiths Beach development.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised more money for families with teenagers while Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition government would boost the tourism industry to the tune of $92 million.

The value of WA listed stocks has risen 343 per cent since the inception of the Deloitte WA Index ten years ago.

New home sales fell 5.2 per cent in WA in June according to new figures from a peak residential body.

A new survey has found a record number of people in Perth want Sunday and weeknight trading.

Eight months after a Norton Gold Fields managing director Jon Parker and chief financial officer Simon Brodie resigned from the company the gold miner has announced their replacements.