Regulation

Burk Fuel owner Umar Farooq was “knowingly” involved in supplying the wrong grades of unleaded petrol to customers, according to a writ filed in the Supreme Court.

The Australian Taxation Office is chasing Eagle player turned businessman Andrew Donnelly and his wife Natasha for more than $4.5 million.

Payroll failures at National Australia Bank will cost it $169 million after stiffing thousands of workers for more than a decade.

Thousands of business clients of Australia's biggest bank were allegedly overcharged millions through secret fees.

An early education provider in Perth has been fined more than $40,000 after a two-year-old had an anaphylactic reaction and was taken to hospital.

The Federal Court has ordered a company linked to former Eagles player Andrew Donnelly and wife Natasha to be wound up, after a no-show for a scheduled appearance.

Service station chain Burk Fuel has been handed prosecution notices over allegations the company has been selling lower-grade petrol as premium unleaded at a number of its Western Australian retail sites.

Financial service operators are using misleading statements and fear tactics to convince Australians to switch their super funds.

Perth building technology company NXT TEC and two of its directors have lost a Supreme Court battle over a $2 million investment.

The State Administrative Tribunal has fined three builders $40,000 over misleading conduct.

Financial Crimes Squad detectives have charged a 34-year-old man with 83 counts of stealing as a servant while working at a car dealership.

Western Australia has again been ranked as the second worst state in the country for doing business, with high payroll tax rates a major concern.

Councils behaving badly continue to cost ratepayers.

Melodiol announces settlement deal, drops Blumenthal examination attempts.

Twenty-eight workers lost their lives on the job across Western Australia in 2025, pushing the state's workplace fatality rate above the national average during the deadliest year for Australian workplaces in more than a decade.

Contractors, financiers and insolvency accountants in legal battles after collapse of companies behind Matsa's Devon gold mine.

The corporate watchdog has cancelled a Perth liquidator's registration after he failed to pay levies and outstanding penalties.

Growing numbers of WA companies ordered to pay big fines over work safety offences are going into liquidation.

Perth's leading insolvency practitioners expect further consolidation in Western Australia's disability support services sector amid continual financial pressure.

Mine operator FQM Australia Nickel has been fined more than $800,000 over an incident at its Ravensthorpe plant, which caused a worker to require spinal fusion surgery.

A Perth company fined $975,000 over a workplace death will pay nothing while its two directors are due to get a $158,000 distribution from the company's liquidators.

The anti-corruption watchdog has found serious misconduct over almost $12 million of local government spending after an investigation into a shire senior officer.

Businesses will no longer be able to charge customers a direct fee for paying by card, in a move spruiked as helping to ease cost-of-living pressures.

A subsidiary of Meneghello Industrial Group has been fined $90,000 and ordered to pay $50,000 in prosecution costs over environmental harm caused by emissions from its Landsdale operations.

A Perth builder and its nominated supervisor have been fined $25,000 over defective work that caused a roof to detach and collapsed on to the neighbouring house.

Detectives are continuing to probe the affairs of late investment promoter Stephen Robert Bruce after charging his wife with seven counts of gaining a benefit by fraud.

The competition watchdog has again opposed IAG's $1.35 billion proposal to acquire RAC's insurance business, doubling down on its stance the deal would substantially lessen competition.

Former Eagles player Andrew Donnelly and wife Natasha have been given another week to find legal representation to fight the taxation office's claim of a $1 million debt.

Australians hunting bargains on comparison websites risk being duped by sites that only offer a selection of preferred providers.

Stephen Bruce victim claims may fall over as the state looks to abandon sentencing of the investment promoter who is believed to have died in a July car crash.

An inquiry report into the City of Perth will be made public but previous findings will remain confidential, as Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley responds to transparency concerns.

The Fair Work Ombudsman claims it has recovered $453 million in unpaid wages and entitlements for more than 181,000 workers across the country.