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A 17-storey office development near the Old Treasury Building redevelopment has received building plan approval and will finish construction within two years of securing an anchor tenant.

Westfield Group looks set to offload its stake in two major shopping centres in suburban Perth just days after it was given the green light to increase ownership of the Karrinyup centre.

Perth Heat will go into bat again this year for the ‘Adopt-A-Seat with the Heat’ program, which hosted more than 500 disadvantaged people in its inaugural innings last season.

Iron ore exploration company Centaurus Metals says its priority is on developing its flagship Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil after writing down the value of its non-core Brazilian assets by m

Westfield has been given the green light to buy all of Karrinyup Shopping Centre if it releases ownership of nearby shopping centre Westfield Innaloo.

Transfield Services chairman Tony Shepherd will be replaced by current director Diane Smith-Gander when Mr Shepherd retires in October.

Cherie Leeden returned from the front line to the conference room last week, telling Metals of Africa shareholders in Perth and Sydney about the copper, zinc and high-grade lead found at the surfac

Sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has announced a record net profit after tax of $55.7 million for the year ended June 30 and appointed a new chairman.

PACT Constructions has won a $38.6 million contract to build Banksia Grove Senior High School in Wanneroo. Five companies submitted tenders for the first part of the school’s two-stage redevelopment.

Several surveying firms have responded in one of two ways during the past year in response to slowing work opportunities in Western Australia – they have consolidated operations, or cast the net wi

Western Australia’s uranium explorers are in somewhat of a holding pattern as they wait for a significant lift in prices for the controversial commodity.

A SURVEY of the state’s corporate and not-for-profit sectors has uncovered some key strategies for achieving better engagement and more productive outcomes between the two groups.

Power generator Pacific Energy has reported record earnings for FY2013 but revised down its earnings guidance for the current financial year after being hit by project closures and the general slow

Energy Minister Mike Nahan is positive the remerging of energy retailer Synergy and generator Verve will lead to increased competition in the marketplace, but acknowledges the details of how the ‘r

Property development group Cedar Woods says it expects to grow its profits further in 2014, after recording a record net profit for the year to June 30.

Western Australian broadacre farmers only averaged a “fairly miserly” 1.07 per cent return on capital for their 2012 harvests due to variability in grain prices, low rainfall, higher costs and

Mining and construction equipment provider Hitachi will develop a $100 million facility at Forrestdale business park, providing a boost for several other commercial developments in the Armadale are

The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil inf

Law firm Slater & Gordon has acquired Perth-based law firm Gibson & Gibson, growing the national firm's Western Australian operations by a third.

Oil and gas producer Strike Energy has raised $9.2 million through the sale of new shares to fund the next phase of drilling at its gas project in the Cooper Basin and received its first pre-paymen

Two property groups – Real Estate Institute of Western Australia and RP Data, working with Rismark International – have produced widely different estimates about housing prices in Perth.

PS Structures has won an $18.6 million contract to build the state netball centre, which will be part of the Matthews netball centre in Jolimont.

WD Moore & Co is set to resume trading two months after it went into administration, after its major Singaporean shareholder bought most of its assets in a liquidation sale and registered a new

Gold producer Ramelius Resources has flagged it is likely to record a before-tax loss of approximately $70 million for the financial year, mainly as a result of big write-downs.

Health insurer HBF has completed a deal, foreshadowed earlier this year, to purchase and move into one of the new Kings Square office towers, relocating its 600-strong staff from its existing offic

Western Australian gold producer Northern Star Resources has shrugged off a falling gold price to report record production and predicted a record profit this financial year.

Gold explorer Gryphon Minerals has slashed costs and retrenched most of its employees, as it seeks to preserve cash ahead of the development of its West Africa gold project.

Cooper & Oxley Builders has won a contract worth more than $14 million to build the Osborne Park Hospital surgical centre development and outpatient department.

Low emissions power company Enerji is in discussions with four potential new clients after announcing its inaugural pilot plant had produced electricity for the first time, its new chief executive

Bus and coach business ADAMS Group was named the Telstra Western Australian business of the year at an awards ceremony held last night.

A Perth supplier of industrial water systems backed by local executives Peter Hood, Andy Byk, Gary Steinepreis and Tom Henderson, has continued its rapid growth with an acquisition in Queensland.

Deputy Premier Kim Hames resigned his tourism portfolio today after admitting to wrongly claiming more than $1,000 in accommodation allowances.