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Resources giant Rio Tinto says it will recruit around 50 former forestry workers from the Manjimup-Pemberton area as part of its efforts to fill roles created by its ongoing expansion.

West Perth-based Eldore Mining Corporation has acquired a 100 per cent interest in the Baita copper mine in Romania for €15 million ($21 million).

The world's fifth largest uranium producer has backed away from a $1.1 billion takeover of Perth-based Mantra Resources on concerns Japan's nuclear crisis would harm the local uranium industry.

Civil engineering and construction firm Decmil Group has won a $55 million contract to install a second 800-man camp at Fortescue Metals' Christmas Creek operation.

The market's response to the planned carbon tax has been instructive.

Softer conditions outside mining don't bother big private companies too much.

Our close relationship with the Japanese could be mutually beneficial at this time.

STAN Perron still goes to his East Perth office three days a week and supports numerous charities, while Harold Clough says he is working as hard as he has ever done, including in a mining venture in Indonesia.

Colin Barnett has warned of problems for future development if WA can't get a better funding deal from the Commonwealth.

MICHAEL Wright doesn't want his descendants to go through the legal and emotional difficulties that have plagued him for the past few years, and restricted his ability to capitalise on opportunities created by recent economic turmoil.

THE success of the Mt Barker Free Range Chicken business has paved the way for further development of specialist brands within Graham Laitt's Milne AgriGroup.

THE state government says a $250 million developer contribution scheme, launched at the Wungong Urban Water project in Armadale, will significantly boost land supply and set new standards in facilitating development across multiple landowners.

ARCHITECTURE firm Hames Sharley was recognised at this year's Property Council of Australia/Rider Levett Bucknall WA Innovation & Excellence Awards for its work on 100 St Georges Terrace/Enex100.

ACTIVITY levels in the Western Australian property market have slumped to 10-year lows and are projected to reach 20-year lows, new data from the state government's land information agency Landgate show.

THE state government has released a new planning and infrastructure framework to guide urban development in the Pilbara for the next 25 years.

THE adage that the whole is more than the sum of its parts is an apt description for how Balcatta-based KAPP Engineering runs its business.

There is something different about Community Arts Network WA.

Raktacino is anything but a quaint little cafe in the suburbs. Carolyn Herbert reports

Shelagh Magadza ends her four-year reign at the Perth International Arts Festival this month with success at the box office and pride in the support of Perth audiences.

The energy sector is not included among the federal government's constitutional responsibilities; so why is it interfering?

Newly released data highlight the sharp decline in the WA residential property market in the past 12 months.

Getting politicians to understand business issues is hard work; getting them to take action is even harder.

Perth's CBD office market has been tipped to become the most expensive in the nation, according to a new forecast by CB Richard Ellis.

While residential construction is declining across the nation, Western Australia's new home building sector has bucked the trend with a 1.5 per cent rise over the December quarter.

West Perth-based explorer ZYL says it has gained the support needed to become a metallurgical coal producer by late 2012 after it received backing from institutional investors to the tune of $30 million.

Focus Minerals says it will lift its yearly gold production by 40,000 to 60,000 ounces, after it announced the start of mining at its underground gold project, The Mount.

Perth-based Perron Group has secured five new leases for its office tower on Melbourne's St Kilda Road, despite vacancy rates in the area rising above expected levels.

Training and Workforce Development Minister Peter Collier is pushing for changes to skilled migration that go further than the reform package announced yesterday by the federal government.

Buy when others are fearful. That piece of advice made Warren Buffett one of the world's richest people, and it could make a fortune for anyone prepared to plunge into massively discounted Australian uranium stocks.

Shares in Gindalbie Metals shot up more than nine per cent after the company announced an expansion of its Karara iron ore project and the appointment of a new chief executive.

Norton Gold Fields has completed the sale of its Sienna and Electra coal projects in Queensland to coal magnate Nathan Tinkler's Boardwalk Resources subsidiary, Boardwalk Sienna.

Highway Construction Pty Ltd has won a $58 million state government contract to widen Kwinana Freeway between Leach Highway and Roe Highway to three lanes.