Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation will seek compensation from Fortescue Metals Group after the Federal Court recognised it has exclusive rights over Pilbara land where the company operates the Solomon hub.
Bis Industries, one of the major transport players in Western Australia, will come under new ownership after a $1 billion debt-for-equity swap deal was struck with its major lenders.
There are signs of recovery in the local economy, with employment and sales activity numbers showing improved performance in June and a major report predicting further recovery next year.
The state's peak body for screen funding and development, Screenwest, has today formalised its transition from a government agency to an independent not-for-profit organisation.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has posted a 6.6 per cent fall in second quarter production following outages at some of its facilities and lower share of pipeline gas from the North West Shelf.
Shares in South 32 have fallen after the diversified miner's annual production of several commodities, including coal, dropped and the company missed its full-year production guidance on some of them.
Origin gas find to feed east coastOrigin Energy could be sitting on a multi-billion dollar gas resource in the Northern Territory that is several times the size of the
The Australian dollar has continued to make gains, helped by a recovery in iron ore and oil prices and as traders stay bullish ahead of employment data later on Thursday.
The major US stock indices have closed at record highs, helped partly by technology stocks, which surpassed a long-standing mark despite gains on the Dow being capped by a sharp drop in IBM shares.
Gold slipped back towards $US1,240 an ounce on Wednesday, after three straight day's of gains, as the U.S. dollar's recovered slightly from a 10-month low.
Former Canaccord Genuity head of energy Asia Pacific, Angus Walker, has taken over the helm of Perth Basin energy producer Empire Oil & Gas today after the resignation of managing director Ken Aitken.
PSC Insurance Group has bought National Franchise Insurance Brokers in a deal worth up to $1.2 million, two months after the Subiaco-based firm was placed into administration.
Australia's biggest banks will have to find billions of dollars of extra cash by 2020, but the new requirement does not look like being much of a problem for them.
Western Australia is behind the mark when it comes to female leadership at ASX-listed companies, but gender diversity has improved on the boards of the nation's top public companies.
Big gains by the major banks on softer-than-expected new capital requirements have driven the share market higher, while the Australian dollar remains at a two-year high.
Metro Mining shares were up 20 per cent after the bauxite hopeful announced the completion of a $38 million capital raising through Perth broking firm Argonaut.
Darren Foster has been formally confirmed as director general of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, making him arguably the state's most powerful public servant, in a move forshadowed by Business News in March.
Perth-based Caroline's Skincare is preparing to ship its first container-load of product to China, having been one of three brands to sign an MoA with a Chinese agency at a 2016 Australia-China Health Expo.
The corporate watchdog has banned a Perth financial adviser from the industry for failing to act in the best interests of his clients while he was employed by a subsidiary of Westpac.
BHP Billiton has met full-year production targets in its main iron ore and petroleum businesses, with a record result achieved at its Western Australian operation, but fell just short in its troubled copper business due to an extended strike at a Chilean mine.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed as "complete and utter waffle" Western Australian federal Labor MPs' submission to an inquiry into the GST.
The Australian share market has lifted in early trade on the back of a rally in financial stocks, but weakness in materials and energy stocks is expected to cap gains during the session.
RBA signals cash rate rise to 3.5pcThe Reserve Bank of Australia looks to be shifting tentatively towards ending more than four years of emergency monetary policy suppo
The Australian dollar has held on to its two-year high against its US counterpart on the back of an upbeat assessment of the economy in the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's July policy me
Oil prices rose slightly as Saudi exports fell and solid demand soaked up some of what is seen as an oversupplied market, but Ecuador's decision to opt out of an OPEC-led supply reduction pact complicated the outlook.
