Staff Reporters

Perth has been ranked Australia's least sustainable city in a new index created by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).

Perth has finished seventh in a league table ranking the town planning performance of Australia's eight capital cities.

The "Extraordinary Taxi" ride, Tourism WA's current advertising campaign ended today in Broome.

The latest Curtin Business School-CCI Survey of Consumer Confidence has found consumer confidence has dropped to levels previously seen during the height of the global economic crisis.

Rio Tinto boss Sam Walsh and Oakajee Port and Rail chief executive John Langoulant are among several West Australians to be honoured into today's Queen's Birthday Honours list.

The Socceroos' 2010 World Cup campaign got off to a disastrous start, after Germany pummelled Australia four-nil.

The WA Industrial Relations Commission has increased the minimum wage by $17.50 per week from the beginning of July.

Australia's newest international airline, Strategic Airlines, will take to the air from Perth tomorrow.

CO2 Group is expanding into the international carbon market and establishing operations in New Zealand.

The federal government has announced it will invest more than 100 million dollars from the Education Investment Fund in four Western Australian projects.

The state government has given approval to Humfrey Land Development for a tourism facility at East Wallabi Island in the Abrolhos group.

The state government has announced plans for an integrated city centre around the Stirling train station and Innaloo shopping precinct.

Premier Colin Barnett says he's received serious complaints from the chairmen of three international companies about the federal government's proposed resource super profits tax.

Canada's Uranium One has sold its interest in Paladin Energy.

China Magnesium (CMC) has launched an $8 million initial public offer and unleashed a veiled attack on the federal government's resource super profits tax.

Two new surveys are pointing to slower growth and weak business expectations in the second half of 2010.

The WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry is predicting the state will face a labour shortfall of 210,000 workers by 2020.

Heavily indebted Perth company Coote Industrial has announced a deeply discounted rights issue pitched at just 16 cents per share and the sale of South Spur Rail Services.

The director of Perth-based earth-moving and property company, Pollock Group, Kevin Pollock has been jailed for more than five years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

The state government has released a new strategy to help Aboriginal jobseekers.

Cazaly Resources has announced Asciano subsidiary Pacific National as its preferred rail haulage partner for the Parker Range iron ore project near Southern Cross.

Global miner Vale appears headed for a showdown with Perth-based Aquila Resources over a lucrative quarter stake in the proposed $2.8 billion Belvedere underground coal project in Queensland.

Former Wesfarmers finance director Gene Tilbrook has been appointed as non-executive chairman of Transpacific Industries.

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) is pressuring the state government to develop a new live cattle export port facility at Point Torment north of Derby.

Private education provider Navitas and Charles Darwin University have collaborated to submit tenders for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's Adult Migrant Education Program for the 2011-2014 contract period.

The group behind the discovery of the DeGrussa gold-copper project near Meekatharra has been honoured by the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC).

Conquest Mining Limited has announced plans for a $58 million takeover of North Queensland Metals.

Dissident shareholders in Padbury Mining have recruited Tony Sage to lead a board spill at the junior iron ore explorer.

Opposition leader Eric Ripper has criticised the Barnett government for a blow out in public sector workforce numbers.

Cazaly Resources has settled finance and off-take deals with European trading house Euromin for its Parker Range iron ore mine near Southern Cross.

TFS Corporation has signed a deal with private forestry company WA Sandalwood Plantations to establish a plantation project for Australian sandalwood.

Transfield Services has won a $200 million contract to manage maintenance and repairs for the WA Department of Housing in what is understood to be a new outsourcing model.