MACA has won a $6 million contract to provide mining services to Northern Minerals' Browns Range heavy rare earths pilot project, while an additional $4 million bulk earthworks contract is also due to be awarded to the Perth-based company.
Origin Energy has sold its under-development Darling Downs solar farm in Queensland to gas pipelines operator APA Group, but will buy all the electricity generated by the project until 2030.
OPINION: Bank bashing is one of Australia's favourite sports, and while it is generally played when banks are behaving badly, there is a time when the banks become political footballs for playing well, which is what will probably happen next week – for 16 billion reasons.
Multiple public holidays in April are considered a likely contributer to a soft housing market for the month, with Perth house prices slipping into negative territory again amid a slowdown across the country.
The federal government won't guarantee Tasmania and South Australia will be no worse off under potential changes to the way GST revenue is carved up among the states.
‘Turning point for better times'Treasurer Scott Morrison says governments can build infrastructure projects more cheaply and effectively than the priva
Oil prices has settled higher on growing hope that OPEC might agree to extend production cuts long enough to reduce a global crude glut, but crude prices still posted a weekly decline.
Gold has closed higher as forecast-beating eurozone inflation data boosted the euro versus the US dollar, while global stock markets retreated from Wednesday's record highs on concerns about global trade.
Former company director Steve Noske has been sentenced today to 18 months' imprisonment and fined $20,000 after being found guilty early this month of insider trading in takeover target Westside Co
The Australian share market has eked out a tiny gain to close higher for a sixth straight session, despite a mixed performance in the heavyweight banking and mining sectors.
Mining services company Ausdrill has expanded its partnership with Hockey Australia, while AGL Energy has sponsored the West Coast Eagles as it seeks to lift its profile ahead of its planned entry to the Western Australian gas market.
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The Town of Port Hedland has voted to support BHP Billiton's ambition to ship out an extra 5 million tonnes of iron ore a year from the port, as the mining giant pushes for a licence to ship 290mtpa by the 2019 financial year.
PHOTO ESSAY: About six weeks after the last grapes have been picked from the vines in the Margaret River region another bountiful harvest begins – the olive harvest.
Four Western Australian medical research organisations are aiming to boost collaboration after moving into the Ralph and Patricia Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute in Nedlands, which was officially opened this week.
Cameron McLaren has always known he was funny, but it took him 24 years and stints in mining, security and delivering pizzas to realise he could make a living out of it.
The state government has cut the number of its departments from 41 to 25, with a fifth of jobs in the Senior Executive Service – Western Australia's highest-paid bureaucrats – to go.
Budget debt will finance airport, railThe Turnbull government will help fund inland rail and is almost certain to build, own and operate the $6 billion second Sydney ai
The Australian dollar is down against its US counterpart, hitting a four-month low after US president Donald Trump again targeted the imports issue, before retracing some lost ground.
Crude prices are slightly lower after a volatile session, as the restart of two key Libyan oilfields and concerns about lacklustre petrol demand feed concern over whether major oil producers can alleviate the glut of global inventories.
Gold has resumed its downward slide from a five-month high in mid-April, giving up gains that came after US president Donald Trump announced unfunded tax cuts, while comments from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi weakened the euro.
Confidence in the economy over the coming 12 months by local small and medium businesses has jumped to its highest level since December 2010, with Western Australian SMEs more bullish than most others in Australia, a new report says.
Premier Mark McGowan has gently chided the mining and energy sector, saying it needs to lift support for local manufacturing, apprentice training and local employment.
The share market has posted a modest gain as strength in the heavyweight financial sector offset a slump in energy stocks as the federal government flagged potential restrictions on gas exports.
