About 400 Esperance residents and businesses have switched from gas to electricity, with the local distributor to cease supplying gas to the town today.
Changes to the safeguard mechanism putting a hard cap on pollution from big emitters have passed the Senate with the support of the Greens and crossbenchers.
ANALYSIS: Richard Goyder is renowned as one of Australia’s top company chairs but he seems to have surprisingly modest expectations for his chief executives, especially Gillon McLachlan.
Richard Court has warned Australia’s east coast faces further gas shortages while arguing for the country to embrace a more realistic approach to its decarbonisation efforts.
Deputy Premier Roger Cook has expressed frustration at the delay in getting Qantas to move to the eastern side of the airport, warning that it is holding WA back.
The state government has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA to launch a new online platform to promote investment-ready projects in WA.
Auditors are asking questions about the Department of Planning, Land, and Heritage’s $2.7 billion portfolio after finding “management were unable to substantiate the existence of all administered land”.
The opposition has bypassed the state government and today written directly to the prime minister to formally outline its request for a royal commission into The Perth Mint.
Perth Mint chairman Sam Walsh and mines minister Bill Johnston have fronted media for the first time since a standards breach embroiled the state’s mint in another public spectacle this month.
The state's Court of Appeal has dismissed former WA Labor candidate Tristan Cockman's application contesting a ruling relating to his unsuccessful preselection bid for the seat of Cowan.
Western Australia’s population grew by a strong 1.8 per cent in the year to September 2022, helped by an unusually large increase in overseas migration into the state.
Regulation of Crown’s Perth operations will be overhauled in line with the Royal Commission’s suggestions, but the government has declined to act on several of the inquiry’s proposed reforms.
A plan to sell Christ Church Grammar School’s playing fields has come to an end after Planning Minister Rita Saffioti refused to support the school's application to rezone the site.
A physiotherapist facing 542 corruption charges will have his trial heard by judge alone after the court found there had been extensive media publicity.
A spokesperson for Perth Mint says it will work openly and transparently in response to an investigation launched by the London Bullion Metals Exchange over standards breaches.
Premier Mark McGowan says he only became aware that the Perth Mint’s biggest client had raised concerns about the quality of gold it had been sold by the state-owned organisation on Monday night.
Withholding information about stamp duty paid on the $17.3 million sale of the Landgate building was not reasonable or appropriate, according to the state’s auditor general.
The state government has launched an online hub to help businesses offer safe workplaces for women, Women's Interests Minister Sue Ellery told a Business News event this morning.
Perth Mint chief executive Jason Waters has admitted that at least ‘some’ parts of the gold sold to the Shanghai Gold Exchange breached specifications, in response to the latest scandal facing the organisation.
