The state government has used its latest cabinet meeting in Midland today to announce four deals worth $67 million to support future medical, university and residential projects in the former railway workshops area.
Aspiring gold miner Gold Road Resources has received the Environmental Protection Authority's nod of approval for its proposed development of its $507 million Gruyere project near Laverton.
Perth-based OTOC has further expanded its operations with the acquisition of Tasmanian business Lester Franks Survey & Geographic for up to $5 million in cash and shares.
Building materials supplier Boral has agreed to buy US firm Headwaters Incorporated for around $US2.6 billion ($A3.5 billion), which Boral says will more than double its US business and help accelerate development of its light building products platform.
The Australian share market has opened lower, following Wall Street's weak leads and amid uncertainty around President-elect Donald Trump's effect on the US economy.
Oil prices have settled higher, closing out a strong week that has seen crude buoyed by growing expectations that OPEC will find a way to cap production at the end of the month.
Gold has fallen to its lowest level since late May as the US dollar surged to its highest in more than 13-and-a-half years on expectations of a December US interest rate rise and higher fiscal spending from President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.
Weak wage gains blow out budgetThe Coalition government is bracing for a significant deterioration in next month's budget update as weaker wages growth offsets any tax rev
Western Australian businesses will have another opportunity to win work in the defence sector, with 30 companies today meeting the two potential head contractors for the Army's Land400 procurement program.
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Bayswater-based recycling company Resource Recovery Solutions was fined $85,000 in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for the death of a worker in September 2013, when the roof of a unit inside its plant collapsed under the weight of debris.
A group of entrepreneurs from seven Western Australian technology businesses are heading to North America next week as part of a new program founded by Deloitte designed to build overseas networks for the state's startup sector.
Western Australia needs to sell itself better as a destination for international students, with the state's share of foreign students studying in Australia plunging over the past 13 years, accordin
Law firm Gilbert + Tobin is the latest company in Perth to shift address, as firms with expiring leases take advantage of the most tenant-friendly market in 25 years.
Experienced business manager and director Ken Perry is bringing a new venture to the Perth market, after becoming a director of Executive Interim Management.
The state government reached a milestone in its asset sales program last night after passing a bill to enable the leasing of Port Hedland's Utah Point, despite opposition from a lobby group representing the miners that currently use the wharf facility.
Automotive Holdings Group has reassured shareholders that its troubled refrigerated logistics business is on the mend, after releasing a trading update that showed lower profits.
The Australian share market is higher with investors hunting yields and bargains as global bond yields rise on the back of firming US interest rate hike expectations.
Gold has fallen to a five-and-a-half-month low, giving up earlier gains as the US dollar index tapped a 13-and-a-half-year high on strong US economic data and comments by US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen that bolstered the case for raising its interest rate in December.
Oil prices have settled slightly lower, before falling as much as one per cent in the after-market session as a stronger US dollar outweighs expectations of an OPEC deal to limit production.
The benchmark S&P 500 index rose to within a hair of its record high on Thursday as bank stocks got a boost from bets on higher interest rates and consumer discretionary stocks were helped by economic data and earnings.
Millions lost via dodgy trusts, says Tax OfficeJust a handful of dodgy tax structures being used by Australians cost tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue, according
Dairy producer Brownes has become the first local company to manufacture yoghurt pouches as part of an ambitious plan to usurp Yoplait as Western Australia's highest selling yoghurt maker.
