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THE state government has made its first overtures to the market in the search for 35,000 square metres of office space in the City of Stirling, predominantly to house the Department of Commerce.

A RECENT investigation by the Auditor General has added weight to state government plans to amalgamate many Western Australian ports, particularly in regional areas.

WESTERN Australia's agricultural exporters look set for a flat year ahead as dry conditions reduce the state's forecast crop harvest for 2012-13, and livestock exporters suffer adverse trading cond

THE Western Australian education sector is pinning its hopes on changes to the nation's visa system to help revive growth in the foreign student market.

ASK the average Western Australian to name the state's major petroleum export and most would surely answer liquefied natural gas.

Australia should embark on a consistent policy of engaging with India instead of trying to fix its patchy relationship through uranium sales, the Australian Greens say.

THE Perth Mint is reaping the benefits of a silver, or rather golden, lining from the ongoing worldwide economic malaise.

WA has increased its lead as the country's largest exporter, but the rate of growth has slowed.

Australia's largest independent music retailer, Allans Billy Hyde, will close with the loss of 513 jobs after the failure to find a buyer for the struggling business.

Australia's economy is growing at a slower-than-normal pace, but is expected to pick up over the next six to nine months.

Ten Network is in danger of having to conduct its second capital raising in less than six months, after the $145 million sale of its outdoor advertising business hit a hurdle.

Property developer Stockland says earnings will fall by at least 10 per cent in the 2012/13 financial year because of the severely weakened housing market.

BHP Billiton remains bullish about the demand for iron ore, despite predicting that Chinese steel consumption will slow.

Australian shares opened higher on fresh hopes that Spain would formally ask the European Central Bank for a bailout.

Business conditions remained positive in September but softer than six months earlier, a survey of mid-sized firms has found.

US markets registered their best gains so far this month on good earnings reports from Mattel, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson, as Citigroup rose 1.6 per cent after the shock resignation of its

The woman at the helm of Barrick Gold's Granny Smith mine in the Yilgarn has been named Western Australia's Business Woman of the Year in the 2012 Telstra awards.

The private sector is set to play a bigger role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the design, construct

Mermaid Marine has announced a $15 million contract with Santos for the oil and gas giant's Modec floating LNG facility in the Carnarvon Basin.

The Australian dollar is almost half a US cent higher, following a strong lead from Asian stock markets.

The Nine Network has reportedly staved off administration, with lenders agreeing on a debt-for-equity deal where two US hedge funds and investment bank Goldman Sachs will take a stake in the broadc

Police Minister Liza Harvey says $26.5 million for the force's annual budget has been clawed back, despite earlier saying it was "pointless" fighting public sector cuts.

Parsons Brinckerhoff has been contracted by Horizon Power to construct a 20 megawatt gas turbine power plant in Karratha.

NRW Holdings has won a $90 million earthworks contract for Rio Tinto at its Yandicoogina iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

The Australian share market has closed slightly higher after easing back from an earlier peak, with investors encouraged by a positive lead from United States markets and prospects of another cut t

Hannans Reward has reached agreement to sell the Discovery Zone copper-iron prospect in Sweden to Avalon Minerals for $4 million.

The world's second largest iron ore miner Rio Tinto increased iron ore production by five per cent in the September quarter to 67 million tonnes.

Engineering and project services group Clough has won a $10 million contract to support exploration works at the Morobe Mining joint venture's Wafi-Golpu project in Papua New Guinea.

An attempt by Nigerian fraudsters to sell a Perth home has been thwarted by a real estate agent.

Perth-based explorer Hot Chili has launched a $35.5 million capital raising to fund development at its Productora copper-gold-molybdenum project in Chile.

Perseus Mining has continued to prosper in the notoriously risky West African sector, passing the 12-month mark since it started production at its gold mine in Ghana.

Six weeks after announcing a dramatic slowdown in its growth plans, iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group says its stalled Kings project could resume later this year and be in production as early a