WA gold hopeful Horizon Minerals has reached a deal to acquire fellow explorer Greenstone Resources to consolidate the two companies’ assets in the Goldfields.
Roger Cook has backed business in and reiterated the need for environmental approvals overhaul in his speech to open the first sitting of parliament in 2024.
A newly formed nationwide group will seek to present a unified voice to protect and consult on sea country, where flashpoints between traditional owners and industry are emerging.
The corruption watchdog has launched a probe into one of the state’s most senior officers over allegations of imprudent spending and misuse of public funds.
Western Australia’s grain harvest has shrunk by nearly 50 per cent from the record highs of recent years, though yield improvements are buffering farmers against increasingly unpredictable rains.
Premier Roger Cook has urged Qantas and the union representing pilots at its WA subsidiary, Network Aviation, to resolve their differences ahead of planned strike action later this week.
Perth-based medical technology company Avicena Systems has won a $3 million grant from the federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources for a collaborative research partnership with the University of New South Wales.
Azure Minerals boss Tony Rovira says it has been “incredibly humbling” to witness the growth of the company underpinned by its takeover offers and timely exploration discoveries in the past year.
Federal governments would risk losing every seat in Western Australia if they tore up the GST deal, Rita Saffioti says, as pressure once again ramps up on the government to axe it.
Perth-headquartered Woodside Energy has mobilised the floating production storage and offloading facility to its Sangomar field in Senegal as it prepares for first oil production.
Perth Basin gas producer Strike Energy says it is disappointed with well testing results from its South Erregulla project, but will use the data gathered to guide the project’s modelling.
Former test cricketer Wally Edwards has clinched a $160 million price for his Holman Industries irrigation brand from global plumbing player Reliance Worldwide Corporation.
Further disruption could hit air routes servicing the state’s mining and resources sectors this week, as an industrial dispute between unions and a Qantas subsidiary escalates.
The Australian share market has finished down 0.4 per cent in large part because of a failed heart attack drug that CSL spent nearly $1 billion developing.
Nutrien Ag Solutions is assessing the damage of the massive blaze that ripped through its bulk fertiliser site in Kwinana on Friday, of which a cause is still unknown.
A probe into the Environmental Defenders Office has begun, as the federal government moves to review its funding into the organisation after the court judgment in Santos’s Barossa matter.
Global Uranium and Enrichment has lodged drill permit applications for its Maybell uranium project in the US, as the company seeks to capitalise on the commodity's rising spot price.
The private operator of Port Hedland’s airport is still seeking a carrier to resume international flights to Bali, two months after it was hoped they would commence.
Barring students from using ChatGPT for education purposes is akin to telling the computer generation to use an abacus, according to one of Perth’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.
More than 400 TAFE lecturers undertook industry placements in 2022 and 2023 as part of a program costing $10 million to the state, the government has revealed.
