Dwelling values in Western Australia have risen more than 4 per cent this year despite evidence that first home-buyers are fading from the market, a private sector survey has found.
Building approvals for WA appeared to be a mixed bag with total approvals up 1.3 per cent in August but approvals for the private sector down, new figures show.
Western Australian consumers joined the rest of the country in flocking back to the shopping malls in August, as the nation spent $19.8 billion without the aid of cash handouts from the government, new data shows.
The building watchdog has thrown its support behind CBI Constructors in legal action against more than 100 workers who went on an eight-day strike last year at the North West Shelf expansion project.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has renewed its push for extended retail trading hours, today launching a campaign urging the public to contact their local member of parliament.
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The environmental watchdog has given its go-ahead for the construction of a new 500 boat capacity marina at Rockingham, saying it was unlikely to impact on the local environment.
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Perth companies Vulcan Resources and Universal Resources have agreed to merge through a scheme of arrangement, nearly one month after both explorers flagged a friendly merger.
The release of the new draft miscellaneous award has prompted concern from a state lobby group, which says businesses will suffer higher costs from a widening of the award's scope.
The impact to an environmentally sensitive area within Sinosteel Midwest Corporation's Mid West iron ore project has been deemed minimal, as the state government today upheld the Chinese company's appeal.
The state government has given the go-ahead for the Cape Peron marina project at Rockingham, which will provide much-needed boating pens and create business opportunities.
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World oil prices tumbled Thursday as weak US economic data and signs of sluggish energy demand in the United States highlighted fears about a tepid recovery from the global recession.
Western Australia will not be bullied by the federal government into joining the other states in a national occupational health and safety regime, Treasurer Troy Buswell says.
The state opposition says an independent small business commissioner and changes to the commercial tenancy act will better protect the rights of small retail businesses compared to amendments proposed by the Barnett government.
WA's rail network is not ready for the next harvest and this could result in a large increase in the amount of grain being transported by road, the WA Farmers Federation has warned.
Planning Minister John Day has today released the government's planning reform agenda including the integration of environmental and planning approvals and appeals.
The state government has managed to keep its annual budget in the black despite revenue growing by just 0.5 per cent and spending skyrocketing by 13.5 per cent.
Fisheries minister Norman Moore has imposed new restrictions on the rock lobster industry in a bid to halve the annual harvest from its long-term average of 11,000 tonnes to 5,500 tonnes.
Nomad Building Solutions says it has secured work valued at $43.3 million that includes a contract for the federal government's Building the Education Revolution project.
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IT has the potential to become one of the great ironies of Western Australia's unfolding LNG boom - hot rocks powering the Pilbara's accelerating oil and gas-based economy.
IF prominent businessman Michael Chaney's actions are anything to go by then Western Australia's corporate sector is poised to enhance its social responsibility through the new Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia.
THE green light for the Gorgon gas project has boosted the share prices of most of the contractors vying for a slice of the estimated $43 billion cost to build Australia's single biggest resource project.
POLITICIANS were wrong to claim the $43 billion Gorgon LNG project alone would keep all the state's workshops ticking over, leading engineers and contractors have warned.
