Sandfire Resources managing director Karl Simich has sold 1 million shares to an unnamed North American resource fund, pocketing more than $3.5 million.
ENERGY giant Shell has asked a number of its Perth-based staff to reapply for their positions next week, as it pushes on with a global restructure to redress a doubling of its cost base since 2004.
HOUSING Minister Troy Buswell's reform proposals for public housing announced last week could not have come at a better time for national social housing provider Community Housing, which recently announced its intention to move into the Western Australian
THE revitalisation of former industrial land at South Beach in South Fremantle has passed a key milestone, as national property developer Stockland expects residents to move into its Islands apartment complex by year's end.
THE market is still digesting the latest jobs figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which showed an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate for September with the creation of 40,600 new jobs, 35,400 of those full-time positions.
UNCERTAINTY over the federal government's carbon pollution reduction scheme has cast a shadow over the growth prospects for the carbon offsets plantation industry.
INDUSTRY has given a tentative thumbs-up to Energy Minister Peter Collier's report into the state's long-term energy security to help guard against potential major supply disruptions.
Troy Resources non-executive chairman John Dow has described the battle for boardroom control as a clash of personalities that started last year, as the chance of a truce looks highly unlikely.
West Perth-based Green Rock Energy, in a joint venture with BHP Billiton Worsely Alumina Pty Ltd, has been granted three new geothermal exploration permits in the Collie Basin.
Perth-based energy specialist Enerji is set to establish an office in the United States after a number of the country's green investment funds indicated they will invest more than $11 million into the company.
Australia's largest provider of contracted air services, Cobham Aviation Services Australia will begin regular direct public flights between Kambalda and Perth next Monday.
Computer and office equipment financing company ThinkSmart has signed a three-year distribution agreement with a leading European electrical retailer that will see the company provide its B2B rental finance product in almost 20 locations across Spain.
The state government has announced plans to split the Environmental Protection Authority from the Department of Environment and Conservation, in a move that has won rare bipartisan support from resources and conservation groups.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has paid a $100,000 fine from the corporate watchdog for an alleged failure to disclose a hike in its 2009 bad debt forecast ahead of a controversial $2 billion capital raising.
