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Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has quietly walked from its bid to secure a mass of exploration licences in the Gascoyne, in what is touted as prime renewables territory.

The local share market finished down 0.6 per cent after RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank wouldn't act quickly to cut rates.

Hesperia has submitted an application for a four-storey development in the Murdoch Health and Knowledge precinct, estimated to cost $68.7 million.

A rising Peel hospitality business will reopen Pinjarra’s historic Edenvale Homestead tea rooms this month.

Mark Scherrer, who founded aerospace equipment manufacturer Ferra Engineering, has spent $12.5m on a 769ha of land in Scott River.

Exploration company M3 Mining will raise $2.2m towards various acquisition and exploration reviews.

Bethesda Health Care’s $60 million mental health clinic in Cockburn will suspend its services for the foreseeable future, less than twelve months after the private centre opened.

A new institute that fills a gap in veterans’ services has already illustrated its intention to convert discussion into action.

WA fintech WeMoney has been selected to join Mastercard’s engagement program, an opportunity the startup hopes it can use to scale its operations.

Shares in West African Resources have been sold off today, following its reduced 2024 production guidance and forecasted higher costs.

The boss who revitalised a flailing Broome resort into an award-winning business has handed the reins over as he prepares for a new role in mining.

ASX-listed De Grey Mining has been given an option to acquire the Ashburton gold project, located in Western Australia's Pilbara region, from Kalamazoo Resources.

Rio Tinto and Lifeline WA have entered a two-year partnership valued at $860,000 to expand the service provider’s mental health crisis support.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has held the cash rate steady at 4.35 per cent, in its first meeting of the new year.

Perth’s Euroz Hartleys has partnered with wealth management platform provider Mason Stevens in a bid to bolster its wealth management and investment services.

Gold miner Aurum Resources has raised $7 million in a bid to accelerate exploration activities at its recently-acquired Boundiali gold project in Côte D’Ivoire.

The rules which help track the state’s natural gas supply-demand balance were breached almost 110 times in the last two years, the Economic Regulation Authority has revealed.

It remains unclear what will happen to sheep and cattle on the MV Bahijah off Perth after authorities rejected a bid to send the livestock to Israel.

The Kwinana industrial strip is going through major change as foundation businesses shut down and new, largely unproven, operations move in.

Rate cut hopes dashed as RBA meets

Viridis Mining and Minerals has completed a $4.5 million capital raise, which will be used to accelerate works at its Brazil-based Colossus project.

Sydney-based private construction company St Hilliers, which has carried out a range of defence related work over several years in Western Australia, has entered voluntary administration.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the positive aspects of activism.

The local share market closed down 1.0 per cent after the chairman of the US Federal Reserve reiterated that the central bank would move slowly on rate cuts.

Devwest Group and Activ Foundation have proposed to build a neighbourhood centre in Maida Vale, estimated to cost $23.5 million.

Activism has changed WA for the better, but a new breed of green extremists is driving anti-activism sentiment to new levels

The Department of Education has awarded an almost $23 million contract to PS Structures to construct a new music building at John Curtin College of the Arts.

Pilots working for Western Australia-based Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation could walk off the job later this week as part of an ongoing enterprise agreement dispute.

Arafura Rare Earths has appointed Darryl Cuzzubbo as the company's managing director and chief executive officer, effective immediately.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA is calling for battery metal support and a close look at the federal government's sweeping policy agenda ahead of the 2024-25 budget.

National household discretionary spending declined by 1.1 per cent through the year to October 2023, but just got back in the black for the year to November (+0.3 per cent).

The Nurses and Midwives WA party will take a wide-ranging policy agenda to the state election likely to encompass housing, crime and road safety.