Across the state's major government-owned utilities, more money goes in through subsidies than out through dividends, according to the latest batch of annual reports.
Police Minister Michelle Roberts insists the state government will not budge on its $1,000 pay increase offer to the police union, saying to capitulate would trigger a flow-on effect across the rest of the public sector.
Henderson-based Civmec has been awarded contracts for work on the Jemena northern gas pipeline in the Northern Territory, which will employ 160 people at its peak.
Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy has agreed to buy Origin Energy's conventional oil and gas business Lattice Energy, which has a major stake in two operations in the Perth Basin, for nearly $1.6 billion.
The Australian share market has opened higher, after Wall Street rose following the release of President Donald Trump's tax reform plan and increased expectation of a Federal Reserve interest rate
Public servants threat to follow police claimThe public sector union says it will tear up the pay offer it is about to put to members and go after the State Government
Brent prices have fallen while WTI (US) crude has rallied, after oil stockpiles in the world's top consumer unexpectedly drew down with refiners coming back online following Hurricane Harvey in August.
Heightened expectations that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this year has driven gold to a one-month low, extending losses after the biggest one-day loss in almost two years during the previous session.
Perth software company Moodle, which has quietly grown to have more than 100 million registered users around the world, has accepted its first outside investment after rejecting multiple approaches from venture capital funds.
The share market has lost ground as investors tread cautiously ahead of a speech by US President Donald Trump that is expected to detail his plans for tax cuts and reform.
Growth in Western Australia's population has continued near historically low levels, with almost 1,000 people per month leaving WA to live in other states, primarily Victoria.
Listed exploration companies increased their spending in the three months to June, according to a new report by accounting and corporate advisory firm BDO.
Property group Stockland has attracted Optus for the top floor of its office building on Victoria Avenue in the CBD, with the telco giant to also take up naming and signage rights.
Failed Ten Network Holdings bidders Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch may be analysing their own independent expert's report ahead of making a decision on challenging the sale of Ten to CBS, a court has heard.
Premier Mark McGowan has lashed the state police union's leadership after a short-lived escalation of industrial action over a pay dispute, saying they went rogue and took the law into their own hands.
New ports, better planning and increased use of technology are in the sights of transport industry leaders preparing the state's freight network for coming decades, according to a panel of experts at a recent Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch.
The Australian market is flat at the open following a mixed lead from Wall Street and reversing from positive indicators on the futures market ahead of the start of trade.
Tax hike widens split over Kalgoorlie Super-Pit valueA tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its own
Oil prices have ended one per cent lower after investors took profits following a rally to 26-month highs spurred largely by threats from Turkey to cut crude exports from Iraq's Kurdistan region.
The Australian dollar has slipped against a strengthening US dollar which rose overnight alongside climbing US interest rates and as risk aversion appeared to fade.
The Australian Securities Exchange has asked the Chamber of Minerals & Energy of Western Australia to retract a statement claiming the ASX could force listed gold miners to suspend trading in their shares because of the planned increased in WA's gold royalty.
Perth-based Monadelphous Group has won a suite of new contracts and extensions for maintenance and construction work around Australia and internationally, to the tune of $220 million.
