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KING Neptune has been waiting a long time for this.Amid much anticipation of rapid development, a six-metre high statue was built almost three decades ago, facing southward from a promontory at Two Rocks towards Perth, 60 kilometres distant.

THE major engineering companies in Western Australia cut employment by 15 per cent during the past 12 months, defining the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector.

The redevelopment of Claremont has the potential to change the way local governments look at revitalising tired suburbs.

AN administrative blunder by copper miner Aditya Birla Minerals has set the scene for another David and Goliath battle over mineral resources in the Pilbara.

BENCHMARK Projects managing director Chris Carman has built a lengthy career out of establishing landmark developments.

Giant LNG develop-ments such as the massive Gorgon project are only half the story behind the boom conditions reappearing in WA.

THE green light for the Gorgon gas project has boosted the share prices of most of the contractors vying for a slice of the estimated $43 billion cost to build Australia's single biggest resource project.

THE proposed $140 billion joint venture of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto's Pilbara iron operations stands to have a major impact for local contractors.

LIKE many apprentices, Mark Stewart dreamed of establishing his own business rather than working for a wage.

POLITICIANS were wrong to claim the $43 billion Gorgon LNG project alone would keep all the state's workshops ticking over, leading engineers and contractors have warned.

IF prominent businessman Michael Chaney's actions are anything to go by then Western Australia's corporate sector is poised to enhance its social responsibility through the new Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia.

ONE fortune in a lifetime is enough for most people, but not if you are the 'golden Greek', a schooldays nickname for Kerry Harmanis, the man who pocketed $500 million less than a year before the 2008 stock market meltdown.

At Nahm Thai, the family that cooks together, works together, studies together and lives together, is the one that stays together. Russell Quinn reports.

FARM groups have welcomed the introduction of a grain trucking scheme that allows transporters an extra 10 per cent load when transporting grain at harvest.

Ros Worthington says she is the richest person in the world, without a worldly possession.

WEST Perth company Cool Energy is planning to press ahead with development of its innovative gas field technology after a major ownership and board restructuring.

The amount of local content on big resources projects is a lingering concern for many business people.

AT the end of the month, the remaining sales and marketing staff at failed agribusiness provider Great Southern will be made redundant; but the battle for control of its assets is just getting started.

Former premier Sir Charles Court’s long association with Japan and his role in WA’s development are chronicled in a new book.

Can controlling red tape help change the way government works?

There are benefits and challenges ahead, as Australia’s population heads towards an expected 35 million by 2049.

PERTH'S commercial office market and the state's building industry are both looking to big gas developments such as Chevron's Gorgon project to be a key driver of activity.

The Rudd government should concentrate its efforts on planning for Australia’s long-term needs.

IT has the potential to become one of the great ironies of Western Australia's unfolding LNG boom - hot rocks powering the Pilbara's accelerating oil and gas-based economy.

A 40-year dream is about to become reality near the dunes at the end of the Mitchell Freeway.

IT is the land where Alan Bond infamously painted the sand dunes green to make the brochures look better.

LAND development has changed substantially in the past decade or so.

The Barnett government has named 34 state schools that will have independent status within the public system as part of a new policy to give more grass roots control to the school.

Melbourne-based Cue Energy Resources says it will look for a joint venture partner shortly for its gas project off the Pilbara coast, which has the potential to host a large resource.

Perth-based explorer CityView Corporation has scrapped one acquisition in favour of another that will give it a controlling stake in a coal briquette company, with the deal valued at $27 million.

East Perth-based Metals X has entered into a farm-in and joint venture agreement with Rio Tinto over a nickel and copper project in South Australia.

The state's Super 14 rugby matches will be played at ME Bank Stadium from next year after the Town of Vincent approved a licence arrangement and $2.4 million worth of upgrades.