Diploma Group has won a $17.6 million contract to build a mixed-use residential, retail and office project in Oxford Street, Leederville, for a joint venture between Foundation Housing, Anglicare W
The Australian Retailers Association has applauded a Fair Work Australia decision that will allow businesses to employ school students on shifts as short as 1.5 hours.
Western Australian Police assistant commissioner Wayne Gregson has been appointed as chief executive of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority for the next 12 months.
Consistent rain, especially in arid Western Australia, has buoyed hopes of a bumper winter crop for 2011/12, the federal government's commodity forecaster says.
Former Westpoint chief financial officer Graeme Rundle has received a suspended 18-month jail sentence after being found guilty of making false or misleading statements with intent to obtain a fina
S&P Indices has completed its quarterly shakeup of its stockmarket indices, with Perth-based mineral sands miner Iluka Resources being elevated into Australia’s top 50 companies.
International oil and gas giant Apache Corp says it has received federal government approval to develop two new natural gas fields off the Western Australian coast.
The mining services industry is going from strength to strength, with earnings per share growth averaging 15.7 per cent, according to analysis of the August 2011 reporting season by UBS.
Chevron’s Wheatstone gas project will be subject to 24 environmental conditions, including limits on dredging and blasting, as it moves closer to a formal go-ahead this year.
Perth company Professional Gyprock Solutions and its sole director, Lin Qiao, has been fined $19,000 for breaches of the Fair Work Act relating to false, misleading and inadequate records of paymen
Murdoch University’s Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases has received a record personal donation; a $1.3 million gift from Fortescue Metals group chairman Andrew Forrest and his wife N
Former Home Building Society managing director Greg Wall is moving back into a management role after being named as the new chief executive at motoring industry cooperative Capricorn Society.
Shire of Roebourne chief executive Collene Longmore is the sole Western Australian representative to be appointed to the federal government's new Ministerial Advisory Council on Regional Australia.
Newcrest Mining and Indonesia’s Aneka Tambang have suspended operations at their Gosowong joint venture after the death of nine people, including two Australians, in a helicopter accident.
Perth-based coal explorer Firestone Energy has announced it has received mining rights approval from the South African government for its joint venture development, the Waterberg Coal project.
THE strength of Western Australia’s commodities sector has again been underlined, with WA-listed company values hitting all-time highs, according to new research from Deloitte.
Bathurst Resources, Fortescue Metals Group and Atlas Iron were recognised as some of Western Australia’s most successful listed companies at an awards ceremony in Kalgoorlie last night.
The Bonaparte LNG joint venture has begun drilling at its Petrel-7 appraisal well in the Timor Sea, as it moves toward a possible go-agead for development of the offshore gas field.
Coretrack chief executive Nanne van ‘t Riet has been told his services are “no longer required” and he will relinquish control of the drilling technology company immediately.
Territory Resources managing director Andy Haslam says he will step down as part of a major restructure following the $133 million on-market takeover bid by Hong Kong investment house Noble Group.
Premier Colin Barnett has announced a $450 million plan to double the capacity of its desalination plant near Binningup, as it attempts to secure future water needs for communities stretching from
The strength of Western Australia's commodities sector has again been underlined, with WA-listed company values hitting all-time highs, new research from Deloitte says.
One of Western Australia’s largest unions says a significant decline in the number of people taking up apprenticeships in the state is a clear signal for urgent government intervention.
Matrix Composites and Engineering chief Aaron Begley and Vassallo Corporation boss Rory Vassallo were among the eight regional winners at Ernst & Young's Western Australian Entrepreneur of the
Civil and mining contractor Brierty has been nominated as the preferred proponent for a $100 million Main Roads maintenance project in a joint venture with AECOM Australia.
