Western Australia's top 10 largest private sector employers employ more than 103,200 people between them, about 2,000 fewer than last year, according to BNiQ research.
The future of BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla plant is on a knife edge after the steelmaker said it would cut at least 500 jobs to reduce costs in the face of cheaper imports.
Construction contractor Badge has raised questions over the onerous process of bidding for public private partnerships, saying the cost of tendering for the contracts are often disproportionate to the benefit of winning the works.
More than $70 billion has been wiped from the Australian share market as fears about China's economy sparked its heaviest fall in six and a half years.
UGL has shut down its engineering design business in Perth as part of the company's response to the low volume of work in the resources sector and cost blowouts on some of its big projects.
Fremantle Dockers star Nat Fyfe is in the clear but Hawthorn skipper Luke Hodge has been slapped with a two-match ban for his bump on Port Adelaide's Chad Wingard.
SPECIAL REPORT: It has been a tough year for job seekers in WA, but some new sectors have emerged to keep the state's employment levels at record highs.
Welshpool-based Maca has posted a slight fall in profit for the financial year but increased revenue by 1 per cent, despite it being a tough time for contractors and mining services companies in the current market.
Higher gold sales and lower exploration spending have boosted diversified miner Independence Group's full-year net profit by 58 per cent to $77 million.
Fortescue Metals Group boss Nev Power is counting on the Chinese government's stimulus measures to boost demand for iron ore after the price slump in the commodity drove the company's full-year profit down by 88 per cent.
Diversified miner South32 is looking to cut its operating costs by 7.5 per cent over the next three years, with a particular focus on payments to contractors.
The Australian share market has plunged at the start of trade, with losses being felt across the board from banks to resources stock as uncertainty grips global markets.
The new owners of Quadrant Energy have spoken to Business News about how the $2.7 billion acquisition came together and their plans for the oil and gas producer.
New apartments in Scarborough are proving popular with buyers, with a quarter of the 100 apartments on offer at Psaros's Sundance development sold in the first week of marketing.
Gold has risen in choppy dealings, hitting a six-week high and putting it on track for its biggest weekly climb since mid-January as more bad economic data from China rattled financial markets, pushing the US dollar broadly lower.
The Town of Port Hedland is poised to complete Western Australia's biggest privatisation in 15 years, with a consortium led by AMP Capital set to pay $165 million for a 50-year lease over the town's airport.
The corporate watchdog is considering an update to its disclosure policy for prospectuses, one week after uncertainty over the policy contributed to the collapse of a high-profile backdoor listing deal.
A stronger local asset management industry could be an important part of the state's economic diversification, according to panellists at a recent Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch.
Oil and gas producer Inpex has emerged as the last potential anchor for a significant new commercial development in the CBD, following Rio Tinto's decision to remain at Central Park.
