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Herdsman Business Park has emerged as the big winner in a state government shakeup of office leasing commitments.

Western Australia's title as the resources state was further cemented today with new figures showing it accounted for 79 per cent of the $109.6 billion committed to projects across the country.

Shares in Balcatta-based minerals tester Ammtec have soared 30 per cent after it received a $123 million takeover offer from laboratory services and chemicals producer Campbell Brothers.

Farm lobby groups have made a last minute pitch for more funding for port and rail infrastructure ahead of Thursday's state budget.

The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia plans to merge its website with aussiehome.com, with the latter's founder, Charlie Gunningham, to manage the combined product.

The Northern Territory government has launched a concerted campaign to poach business from Western Australia and rival Perth as a regional oil and gas capital.

Regional Western Australia has recorded one of the largest declines in housing affordability in the March quarter, a new report shows.

The Floreat Tavern has been sold to publican Geoff Hayward, the man behind the development of The Brisbane Hotel, Cino to Go and Luxe Bar.

The ailing agricultural managed investment sector has claimed another victim with private Western Australian player Rewards Group falling into administration.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has again defended the proposed resources super profit tax, saying today it was what the mining industry had asked for.

West Perth-based Aphrodite Gold has today opened its $10 million initial public offer to progress exploration and development at its namesake deposit which it recently bought from Apex Minerals.

West Perth-based Adelphi Energy has urged its shareholders to take no action regarding an on-market takeover offer launched today by its major shareholder, oil and gas company AWE.

Elders has reported a $165 million first half loss, with improvement on its previous first half, and forecast continuing improvement in earnings in the second half if suitable rainfall levels are achieved in Western Australia.

Cedar Woods Properties has bought the former Bushmead Rifle Range site located at Hazelmere from the Department of Defence for $18 million.

Up to half of the 500-strong workforce at collapsed Griffin Coal is reportedly at risk of losing their jobs next month as customer Worsley Alumina talks to Wesfarmers' Premier Coal about switching its coal supply.

The founding managing director and chief executive of NRW Holdings, Jeffrey McGlinn, has resigned from the mining services company to pursue other private business interests.

UPDATE: Japan's Inpex has pushed back its planned first gas date from its $20 billion Ichthys project by one year to 2016.

A Singaporean development company is proposing to build three 12-storey apartment buildings on the White Sands Tavern site in Scarborough.

The state government has today committed $12 million from this year's budget to provide low-interest loans to community sector ogranisations and a social innovation grants program.

Gindalbie Metals plans to tap the market for up to $206 million to fund its Karara iron ore joint venture, days after it announced a capital cost increase at the Mid West project.

A HOST of ambitious plans to improve the city’s central business district is set to be unveiled for public discussion by the City of Perth.

PAYROLL giving is emerging as a significant contributor to the not-for-profit sector with a growing number of Western Australian businesses implementing the donating mechanism, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

If life is a cabaret, then Clyde and Lesley Bevan have got their act together. Emily Morgan reports.

THE business of lobbying government is a tough one and none more so when representing a sector unloved by the politicians in power.

Property investors need to realise that widely quoted industry analysts employ very different techniques for measuring property values.

The Rudd government has drifted to such an extent it is unclear what, if anything, it really stands for.

PERTH broker State One’s online trading service, Amscot Discount Stockbroking, has taken out the top ranking for services aimed at high volume share traders in an annual review of the online share trading sector.

It took more than luck to get the ‘resource rich’ states where they are.

The next generation of iron ore barons has plenty to fight for following the federal government’s planned 40 per cent ‘super profits’ tax on miners.

It seems some profits are more ‘super’ than others.

WA’s up-and-coming iron ore miners are not the two-bit juniors of times past, but serious players planning billions of dollars of real investment.

The proposed resources tax has an echo of past policy failures.