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Four years ago, Egami Style founder Natasha Di Ciano saw a void in the market for a business that could help people make the best of their image to advance themselves in a professional environment.

Martin Kane is part of a committed team that has been paddling hard on the board to help make surf lifesaving in Western Australia run more like a well-oiled business and to better handle its main task – saving lives.

It is easy to trust a patissiere that has an accent as thick as Christian Martineau.

The plotters against Kevin Rudd would have served Labor better by axing all in the ‘gang of four’.

Mirvac, Peet and Satterley Property Group have been shortlisted by LandCorp to develop its 240 hectare landholding at Eglinton, in Perth's northern suburbs.

There has been a flurry of new Western Australian stockmarket entrants to close last financial year and to begin the new, with seven resources-focused firms from WA listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in June and July.

A DELOITTE corporate finance survey has found a recovery in stock market floats in Western Australia during the past financial year, although the annual data disguises a slump in activity in recent months.

THE towns of Cambridge and Vincent want to reunite the elements of the old area of Leederville divided by the Mitchell Freeway as part of a plan to develop key pockets of land isolated by modern transport infrastructure.

LISTED property developer Peet expects to expand its land holdings by as much as 30 per cent over the next five years after partnering with the Future Fund to buy and develop large, residential land holdings in Australia.

THE Housing Industry Association says new home sales in Western Australia are at ‘dangerously’ low monthly volumes.

WESTERN Australian real estate agents say they have strong reservations over a federal push to create a national licensing system.

NATHAN Ahern thought that if he was tired of visiting beauty parlours and day spas to get his regular wax, chances were he wasn’t alone.

Sending artworks on the long trip across the Nullarbor Plain or on a precious cargo flight may have traditionally been the path for Western Australian art collectors hoping to cut a deal.

The owners of a new pub west of the CBD want to get the place jumping. Carolyn Herbert reports.

Ensuring the security of long-term energy supply should be top priority for the state government.

Is Australia an easy place in which to invest and do business?

As each week passes, the federal government’s incompetence over live cattle exports gets more and more staggering.

Current events are exposing the limits of globalisation.

Law firms Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff will merge to create a 32-partner firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second biggest law firm in Western Australia.

WESTERN Australian law firms Clayton Utz, Blake Dawson, and DLA Piper have added new partners to their practices in the past week, while a long-serving member of staff has retired from Norton Rose.

What is it with academics and their desire to sign proclamations about what is right or wrong?

This year’s survey of mergers and acquisitions activity in WA reveals a new ranking among corporate advisory firms in Perth.

Colin Barnett has taken a bit of a gamble in naming Burswood as the site for the new 60,000-seat stadium.

IF you have an established business with a good track record of sales and profit, how much can you expect from a sale?

Fastwave Communications and Curtin University were among the winners at the technology industry's most comprehensive awards program, the iAwards.

The state government has revealed the first nine regional towns to benefit from $85 million in upgrades under Regional Development Minister Brendon Grylls' "SuperTowns" initiative.

Police have brushed past a protest blockade to escort Woodside Petroleum contractors to the site of a proposed gas hub at James Price Point in the Kimberley.

Indonesia has confirmed it will significantly cut the number of cattle it sources from Australia when it re-assesses its import quota for next year.

Voters appear to be abandoning the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and her rush to introduce a carbon tax. Money is just ignoring her.

The state government has announced the release of 39 lots earmarked for industrial purposes at Hedland Junction, near Port Hedland.

Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff have announced they will merge to create a 32-partner law firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second largest firm in WA.

The state government has revealed details on $147 million of budget commitments for upgrades to six country hospitals in the south of the state.