Perth-based lender P&N bank has pre-empted the Reserve Bank of Australia on interest rates, cutting the rate on its three-year fixed rate home loans to 5.1 per cent.
Perth-based Gunson Resources has become the latest junior mining company to cut pay rates and boardroom numbers in a trend demonstrating the increasingly difficult operating environment for the sec
The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.
The Chamber of Arts and Culture WA has appointed its inaugural executive director, with the recruitment of experienced arts administrator Henry Boston.
BC Iron and Cleveland Mining Company have taken the first steps to securing the first three projects under the iron ore miners’ Brazilian strategic alliance.
Feral Brewing Company’s Hop Hog India pale ale has been rated as Australia’s best beer in a soon-to-be released guide to the nation’s top brews, adding to a long list of accolades for head brewer B
Shedding light on the social impact of Western Australia’s remarkable growth will be a priority focus for the new economics research centre at Curtin University.
The S&P 500 has reached a new all-time high, boosted by an expected European Central Bank interest rate cut and a surprisingly good US jobless claims report.
Planning approval for a Subiaco office project under a new assessment model has run into stiff opposition and could lead to more legal challenges to the state government’s fledgling planning applic
Alcoa has announced it will review its alumina refining system, including its facilities in Western Australia, as the global aluminium giant seeks to cut costs in a weak industrial metals market.
Perth-based information and communications engineer Titan ICT Consultants has signed an agreement with a US-based group to enhance its underwater fibre optics services for the oil and gas sector.
Mining contractor MACA remains optimistic about its prospects of revenue growth in financial year 2013, despite losing a significant contract after Focus Minerals halted its Laverton operations earlier this week.
Once seen as an attractive capital source for Australian companies, regulatory hurdles in Canada combined with depressed global markets have dampened enthusiasm for dual listings.
Western Australian home building approvals rose slightly in March, but it wasn’t enough to stem the largest monthly decline in national approvals since July last year.
A peak farmers’ lobby group is examining the possibility of administering the federal government’s farm finance package outside of the state, amid concerns the lifeline could get derailed by the st
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will introduce legislation to increase the Medicare levy to support Labor's national disability care scheme to be voted on by MPs later this month.
Low-income earners' prospects of finding affordable housing in Western Australia continue to decline, with Perth's median rent price up 16 per cent from 2012.
The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.
The Australian economy faces a pothole in economic growth because non-mining investment is not adequate to fill the gap left by the fast-fading resources investment boom, an independent forecaster warns.
