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Perth-based health fund HBF has formed a partnership with online comparison service provider iSelect to distribute its suite of health insurance products outside of Western Australia.

West Perth-based explorer South Boulder Mines has announced another capital raising to fund ongoing work at its Colluli potash project in East Africa.

A Perth-based company is looking to make an international impact in the concrete cutting industry.

Developers are turning to innovative building methods to help address the costs of constructing hotels.

The commercial construction sector is emerging as a bright spot amid all the doom and gloom in WA. Click through to see the special report, with details of Perth's biggest construction jobs.

The Australian share market has opened lower.

People leaving the workforce now have got it much tougher than those who left a decade ago and will need to take a lot more risk in order to fund their retirement, the head of the Reserve Bank says.

Gold has jumped more than two per cent - to be back above $1,200 an ounce.

The Australian dollar has risen amid softer-than-expected US economic data in the lead-up to this week's US Federal Reserve meeting.

US stocks have snapped a three-day rally to record highs as investors awaited Apple earnings results and a Federal Reserve policy meeting.

World oil prices have traded narrowly mixed as traders assessed escalating violence in Yemen and the prospect of another rise in US crude inventories.

A plan to grow the state's Aboriginal tourism offerings relies heavily on corporate participation.

An unlikely sector is confidently going about its business while other parts of the economy struggle.

The Australian sharemarket ended the week strongly, with gains on the back of a rally in iron ore prices from decade lows.

The receivers who took charge of the Windimurra vanadium project in February have put the trouble-plagued mine up for sale, with Gresham Advisory Partners appointed to find a buyer.

Western Australia is another step towards developing a uranium export industry, with Canadian giant Cameco receiving federal environmental approval at its Kintyre deposit in the East Pilbara.

The state and federal governments have committed a combined $14.9 million to widen Kwinana Freeway southbound along a 3 kilometre stretch from Armadale Road to Russell Road.

East Africa Resources has become the 36th Perth-based company to announce a backdoor listing deal in the past 18 months, with plans to exit uranium exploration and acquire local security services business Threat Protect Australia.

Mount Gibson Iron has cut 20 per cent of its staff in the past quarter as it focuses on reducing costs and preserving cash to combat weak iron ore prices.

Like ships passing in the night, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey haven't seen a lot of each other recently.

The mining industry is adopting new technology it hopes will raise flexibility and lower costs in a changing environment.

The chief executive of the Shire of East Pilbara has called on the owner of Newman's only shopping centre to reduce rents.

Students at the University of Western Australia have partnered with Nedlands-based money manager Viburnum Funds to set up a $20,000 student-run managed fund.

Two Karratha businesswomen believe cheaper commercial rents are vital to ensuring the sustainable growth of small businesses as part of a plan to diversify the Pilbara's economy.

Production has declined at uranium player Paladin Energy's biggest mine after a well failed, but the company is upbeat about the prospects of exports to Japan and India.

Loss making mining services contractor Macmahon Holdings will cut another 40 staff and alter its corporate rosters to cut costs.

Metals explorer TNG has secured a $2 million placement to progress a feasibility study on its planned Mount Peake vanadium project in the Northern Territory.

The Snaptch app allows models and other creative professionals to showcase their portfolio and social media presence to the industry.

The state education minister has denied the opposition's claims classrooms will suffer as a result of job cuts at public schools.

The Australian share market has opened higher, following gain on Wall Street overnight.

The Australian dollar is higher after the release of some disappointing US economic data.

Gold rose from a three-week low on Thursday, following its biggest drop in over a month on Wednesday, as the dollar retreated on weaker-than-expected US economic data.