As Australia cuts reliance on big power stations and embraces rooftop solar panels and other renewable energies, grid planners will to need to change the way electricity is moved from sources to us
Perth’s residential property sector is expected to continue to grow despite mining investment reaching its peak over 2013-2014, new research from CBRE says.
Home building approvals had a big rise in April, a sign that last year's series of Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate cuts are helping the sector.
Perth-based energy infrastructure company ATCO Australia has announced it will support two new exhibitions to be presented by indigenous art group Nomad Two Worlds.
After a number of years in the wilderness, Perth jazz lovers turned out in their thousands for the inaugural running of the Perth International Jazz Festival.
OM Holdings has announced a plan to raise $24 million to fund continued development at its OM Sarawak manganese and ferrosilicon smelting project in Malaysia.
Incoming Seven Group chief executive Don Voelte says the resources downturn is an opportunity to build the business, which is one of the largest players in Australia's mining services sector.
The race to build a hotel and apartment tower in the state government’s blue riband Elizabeth Quay precinct has turned into a tug-of-war between three consortia.
The state government has given Chinese group Kimberley Agricultural Investment four years to develop active irrigated agriculture in the Ord River region, before it will agree to signing long-term
The Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest level since October 2011 after the release of stronger US consumer sentiment figures boosted the US dollar.
Austbrokers Holdings has expanded its insurance underwriting agency business with the purchase of majority shareholdings in Perth-based Lawsons Underwriting Australasia and Melbourne-based Guardian
The state petroleum industry regulator has lashed out at environmental activists campaigning against the shale gas industry, saying unreliable and inaccurate information could damage the sector's r
Peak Resources has released a revised scoping study for its Ngualla rare earth project in Tanzania, which flags significant reductions in costs and an option to double planned production from the m
St George Mining shares have risen 16 per cent after BHP Billiton Nickel West agreed to proceed with a farm-in arrangement over nickel rights to tenements at St George’s East Laverton project.
Former CITIC Pacific Mining chairman Dongyi Hua has paid $15 million to take a controlling 40 per cent stake in struggling engineering and construction contractor VDM Group.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the carrier is set to announce a multi-million dollar joint marketing agreement with Tourism WA in a bid to promote Western Australia to a new raft of interna
The Australian dollar is lower after another batch of good US economic data cemented hopes of a winding down of economic stimulus measures by the US central bank.
