The state's small to medium enterprises are keeping up with their larger counterparts as business conditions continued to further weaken SME's across the country.
Perth-based Incremental Petroleum Ltd has recruited the services of former New South Wales senator Sandy Macdonald who will join the board as non-executive director.
West Perth-based Polaris Metals NL Has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Fremantle Ports that will focus on finalising the best option to export ore from its Yilgarn iron ore project at the bulk berths at Kwinana.
Apache Energy Ltd delivered good news on the gas criris today when it said partial production from its Varanus Island gas plant will resume ahead of schedule but the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA said the state is not "out of the woods".
Western Australia is one of two states that have defied the downward path of Australia's manufacturing activity, which sunk to a near three-year low as high interest rates slow the economy.
HBOS, the UK parent company of BankWest, has recorded a 56 per cent fall in net profits for the first half of 2008 due to credit crunch turbulence while earnings at its Australian arm dipped 12 per cent.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry has stepped up its calls for deregulated trading hours as Perth is revealed as the second most expensive capital for food and groceries.
Of Western Australia's 32 premiers, only two - Sir John Forrest and Sir Charles Court - are likely to ever get within cooee of challenging Brian Burke in the most-written-about stakes.
The development of Coral Bay has been stalled for the past few decades, but the wheels of change have now started to turn, with site works for a village housing up to 400 people due to start in the near future.
Property developers in Western Australia are likely to face higher costs for water connections to projects in regional areas if changes to developer contributions, put to the state government by the Economic Regulation Authority, are adopted.
Players in Australia's uranium industry have renewed calls for the federal government to take control of the future of the country's rich uranium deposits.
WESTERN Australia has moved closer to full grain export deregulation with the Economic Regulation Authority recommending the deregulation of barley, canola and lupin exports.
Mining engineers, scientists and technology entrepreneurs should collaborate with innovators in the arts sector to produce outcomes that benefit all sectors, the WA Business News boardroom forum was told.
The concerns of one of Australia's leading actuaries regarding the transfer from the state of about $330 million in assets may have stopped the mutualisation of $9 billion fund manager GESB, which claims about one quarter of Western Australia's workforce
Western Australian mining and mining service industries have experienced a huge rise in the demand for skills and equipment which, along with higher fuel costs, has driven up their costs of doing business.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resour
An air of uncertainty still surrounds the $2 billion Oakajee Port project, despite the state government selecting Oakajee Port and Rail Pty Ltd as the preferred developer.
Although they are at the heart of Western Australia's resources boom, regional communities are only just starting to receive the downstream benefits from the state's strong economy.
Iconic Perth music store 78 Records is about to undergo a major overhaul, and get some unlikely neighbours, as its home of 12 years undergoes extensive renovations.
Perth-based green energy firm Eden Energy Ltd has established a new US subsidiary to lead the production and promotion of its 20/80 hydrogen/natural gas fuel blend.
When prominent Perth accountant Frank Cooper was asked to join the WA Opera board, his initial reaction was: "The fat lady with horns? Not my cup of tea".
Developers of the Gorgon gas project are looking to invest more than $1 billion on carbon capture and storage designed to reduce the project's emissions by up to 40 per cent.
Murchison Metals Ltd's equal joint venture partner for the Oakajee port development and Jack Hills iron ore mine in Western Australia, Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, says it could be interested in taking a controlling stake in the ventures.
Western Australia has recorded a 6.5 per cent drop in building approvals for the month of June as approvals across the country slump to their weakest reading in over two years.
Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan has cautioned that the development of the $2 billion Oakajee port and associated rail infrastructure is some time away, after today selecting Oakajee Port and Rail Pty Ltd as the preferred bidder.
