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Venture Minerals has announced plans for a $20 million capital raising to fund ongoing exploration and feasibility studies at the Mt Lindsay tin/tungsten project in northwest Tasmania.

Chinese-controlled Perth miner Perilya has unveiled a friendly $186 million takeover of Canadian copper miner GlobeStar Mining Corporation that will see the base metals producer spread its wings to the Caribbean and Canada.

For two years The George has offered style and class in the city. Emily Morgan reports.

The push for renewable energy could put nuclear power back in the frame.

Australia must support manufacturing to ensure the nation does not become overly reliant on the resources sector.

The Reserve Bank has offered borrowers a small reprieve from higher interest rates but there are bigger issues to worry about.

The MRRT will alter the face of the mining sector.

Having assumed a spoiler's role in the economic debate, retailers act in no-one's interests but their own.

The rising Australian dollar took the gloss off another strong performance by WA exporters in the 2009-10 financial year.

Colin Barnett has a job on his hands to balance public expectations with the realities of a growing economy, particularly with regard to household prices.

JUST as Australia overall once rode on the sheep's back, the fate of Western Australia arguably now rides in the back of an iron ore haul truck.

REALMARK was last week named as the most successful real estate agency in Western Australia, when it received awards in four categories at the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia's annual awards.

WEAK prices and lower volumes have eroded the value of Western Australia's largest agricultural commodity, the wheat crop.

GOLD exports from Western Australia last year totalled $13.65 billion, down on the $16.5 billion a year earlier, as a rising Australian dollar wiped off some of the gains of higher production.

TUMBLING Australian-dollar oil and gas prices took the wind out of the sails of Western Australia's petroleum producers last financial year, despite the state further cementing its title as the nation's premier petroleum exporter. According to Department

INDUSTRY has called for the creation of an industrial lands redevelopment authority and a $2-3 billion infrastructure fund to facilitate the planning and delivery of industrial land in the metropolitan area.

BANKWEST is looking for a new sub-tenant for the top three floors of city office tower, Raine Square, with international gold miner Barrick Gold understood to have cancelled its sub-lease agreement to take up the space.

NEW population growth statistics have bolstered calls from the Urban Development Institute of Australia for the state government's planning framework, Directions 2031 and Beyond, to have an infrastructure investment plan in place to avoid a looming land s

CONSIDERED vital to the effective operations of most businesses, IT infrastructure would probably be way down on the shopping list for many in the not-for-profit sector.

South Hedland's main street is set for a makeover as part of the state government's $23 million Royalties for Regions project to revitalise the town centre.

Melbourne-based business UXC has been selected to provide a lifestyle and entertainment system for workers on Chevron Australia's Gorgon gas project.

The competition watchdog has agreed to allow DP World Australia and Patrick Stevedores to give preferential treatment to trucks engaging in dual runs in an effort to improve efficiency at the Port of Fremantle.

Several national parks around the state are set to benefit from $20 million in funding from the Royalties for Regions program.

WA is having a gold renaissance, with exciting new areas in the far reaches of the state being opened up to exploration.

For whom the bell tolls

Few of the recent successes in the gold sector would be possible without a buoyant gold price to support them.

Australia's first community wind farm is to be built in Mount Barker, providing enough energy for the town when it is completed

Port Bouvard has emerged from its financial strife and is now strongly positioned to commence work at its landmark project, Point Grey. Dan Wilkie reports.

Owner of fast food chain CHOOKS Fresh & Tasty, Steven Hansen, has sold the Perth-born franchise to Red Rooster and Chicken

THE Perth CBD office leasing market is heating up, with top-tier tenants beginning to hunt out new space and upgrade their premises after the recovery of business conditions.

AN industrial site in Canning Vale tenanted by supermarket giant Coles Group is set to become a record transaction for the Perth market, with an expected price tag upwards of $80 million.

It is the enormous sculpture inspired by the story of Saint George slaying the dragon that catches your eye when driving past Perth's newly renovated Saint George's Cathedral.