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Some delicate negotiation is needed in the upcoming round of pay claims if the government is to emerge unscathed.

WESTERN Australia needs more people, and needs a vision to support its long-term growth and economic diversification.

CHARITABLE donations in Australia dropped by $253 million in the 2008-2009 financial year, from $2.35 billion in 2007-08, accor

CUTS to payroll tax and stamp duty sit at the top of the business sector’s tax reform agenda for Western Australia.

PERTH-BASED and regional businesses were among those recognised at three different award ceremonies last week.

NATIONAL property developer Stockland has boosted its Western Australian residential land holdings by almost 40 per cent to close the big gap between it and local leaders, Satterley and Peet.

PINDAN Construction and PACT Constructions have been awarded contracts to build two new high schools in Perth, at a combined cost of $97 million.

ARCHITECTURE firm Silver Thomas Hanley has been appointed to lead the design team for the $234 million redevelopment of St John of God Hospital in Murdoch.

THE sale of two significant suburban shopping centres in Perth will test investor enthusiasm for the state government’s new retail property planning policy.

PARAMEDIC Christy Whitby says one of her motivations for starting Compass Health with Tony Metcalf in 2007 was the lack of support she felt during her time working on mine sites.

Listed company AnaeCo has resolved to focus on the commercialisation of its waste treatment technology, following the resignation of its founder Tom Rudas.

Perth architecture firms are still waiting for the post-GFC recovery to lure private sector developers back into the market.

WA has been shaped by 120 years of boom-bust history, and that mindset still prevails, in damaging ways.

What if a building could improve your attention span, help you heal and save taxpayers’ dollars?

It looks like a case of ‘owners sit tight, buyers get ready’ in local property for the next two years.

THE Barnett government’s blueprint to transform Perth into a vibrant, contemporary city could prove to be the saviour of the local architecture sector, but the true potential of these once-in-a-generation projects reaches far beyond their financial impact

Is public transport a victim of its own success or a wasteful rort?

COMMUTERS and shoppers passing through the Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge have seen big changes over the past year, and they are a pointer to even larger changes afoot.

It will be a major boost for attorney-general Christian Porter if he can get his draft prostitution Bill across the line.

RECENTLY completed office tower one40william has become the first new central city development in Perth to win the architecture profession’s top prize in more than a decade.

LIFELINE WA and Perth based internet service provider iiNet have joined forces to raise awareness and vital funds for Western A

KERRY Hill Architects has grown in recent years to have a substantial practice in Fremantle, but it would not have been that way if the firm had not won the design competition for the State Theatre Centre.

PROPERTY developers are pressing ahead with their projects in Midland despite the withdrawal by Singapore-based Raffles Education Corporation from plans to establish a university at Midland’s heritage-listed Railway Workshops.

INCREASED confidence in the local economy has led to a spike in tenant demand for office space, new research says.

LANDCORP has opened the call for builders and developers to lodge expressions of interest to develop the first release of lots at the Springs Estate in Rivervale.

DULUX’S manufacturing facility in O'Connor has just hit the market and is expected to attract interest from developers and owner-occupiers, according to its vendors.

The founder of Granny Flats WA.com, Mike Nicholls, has brought a very 1970s concept into the new millennium, proving granny flats are much more than your typical, done-up ‘shed’ in the backyard.

MUSICIAN John Butler, art advocate Janet Holmes a Court and WA Institute of Medical Research director Peter Klinken may seem to have little in common – and until recently that may have been the case.

Live music underpins the transformation of North Perth’s historic The Rosemount Hotel. Emily Morgan reports.

WESTERN Australia has the worst track record of any state for diverting waste from landfills, new data shows.

The leaders of WA’s two major political parties are noticeably silent on a crucial issue of state energy security.

A START-UP Perth business has unveiled an innovative plan to enter the data centre market, in which heavyweight IT and telecommunications players like Fujitsu and Leighton have recently made multi-million dollar investments.