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.
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New research has confirmed what Perth coffee drinkers have thought for a while; a hot mug of steaming java in the west is more expensive than any other capital in Australia.
Premier Colin Barnett has outlined three reasons the government wants to push ahead with acquiring land at James Price Point, despite Woodside shelving its original plan for the Browse gas project.
Oil and gas exploration play Pura Vida Energy will tap investors and financiers for up to $12 million, to fund the ramp-up of drilling activities at its newly-acquired Nkembe block, off the coast o
Premier Colin Barnett has again baulked at signing up to the national disability care scheme, saying the increased Medicare levy is the "easy" part of funding the plan.
