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The state's largest renewable energy project, located near Merredin, has passed a major milestone with Western Power completing a $20 million project to connect the wind farm to the grid.

Consolidated Minerals has urged shareholders of OM Holdings to reject its proposed dual listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and has flagged major changes to the OM Holdings board.

HAVE you ever heard of the Burghound? He’s a wine geek based in the US who, after finishing up as a CFO for a Fortune 500 company, decided to embark on a completely new career as a wine reviewer.

Despite a pipeline of multi-million dollar projects the Diploma Group faces the challenge of converting those dollars into profits.

A TWO-SPEED market has emerged in the industrial land sector, with demand spiking for land located in Perth’s traditional industrial strongholds around Kewdale and Welshpool.

MORE than a decade ago, (then) 23-year-old Perth business students Damien Langley, Jeremy Chetty, Craig Chetty and Simon Loader came up with a concept to make the lives of Western Australian students easier.

MANY Rivers Microfinance has undergone a rapid expansion of its operations in the Kimberley, Pilbara, and Goldfields regions since its arrival in Western Australia last year.

A couple of fresh faces have added a new dimension to the Mosman Park scene. Amy French reports.

Having turned her own life around, Jade Lewis is determined to help others.

WA faces long-term energy cost increases as world oil prices continue to rise.

While they’re widely considered to be unproductive and too long, meetings still take up much of a manager’s day.

The issues surrounding the oil and gas industry in WA almost rival the scale and complexity of the sector itself.

Higher-than-expected construction costs are hurting the government’s great infrastructure project – the NBN.

Julia Gillard may have neutralised the GST as an issue during her recent visit west, but there’s still plenty of manoeuvring ahead on that front.

Christian Porter might be planning to prime the pump in his May budget.

The travel agency sector is crowded with suppliers, wholesalers and retailers, but two major players dominate the local scene. Emily Morgan reports.

Online bookings have provided travel agents with an enormous challenge.

Asia Iron has become the latest Mid West iron ore player to take a major step forward, with the appointment of WorleyParsons as its project management contractor for the first stage of the Extension Hill magnetite project.

Too many shops! That is the awful reality for traditional retailers, and investors in retail-focused funds, because there is no hope of a sudden revival of shopping as we have known it.

Western Australia's newest wind farm has opened on a sheep property near Mt Barker, after gaining 50:50 government funding.

Perth-based engineering services group LogiCamms has won contracts collectively worth $4.5 million from multi-national equipment and engineering group Sandvik.

Edith Cowan University Professor Craig Valli has received the top accolade at the Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards.

West Australian Newspapers shareholders have voted to approve the proposed $4.1 billion takeover of Seven Media Group, to form Australia's biggest media outlet.

The country's biggest grain exporter, CBH Group, has awarded a United States-based corporation an $80 million contract to build a new locomotive fleet.

UPDATE: Woodside Petroluem chief executive Don Voelte has echoed BHP Billiton in hosing down speculation that the multinational mining giant was about to embark on a takeover bid for the oil and gas producer.

Equinox Minerals says Minmetals Resources $C7.00 per share takeover offer is "clearly opportunistic" and a "lowball price".

Perth-based WHL Energy says its heavily oversubscribed $10 million share placement will provide the funds to progress its Seychelles oil and gas project towards farm-out and drilling.

Transport and logistics firm Linfox says it will develop a $68 million "supersite" on eight hectares of industrial land in Hazelmere.

Base metals miner Azure Minerals' stocks have spiked after it announced the signing a $13 million farm-in and joint venture agreement with a state-owned Japanese corporation for its El Tocolote copper project in Mexico.

A bizarre case of theft underscores the need for the state to outsource unnecessary work.

There are plenty of political points available when talks about a new GST carve-up get under way.

WESTERN Australian-based Heliwest has struck a deal with local oil and gas company Roc Oil (WA) to provide service and maintenance crew transfers for its Cliff Head project off the coast of Dongara.