The reporting season has kicked off with some cheery results from the likes of Bradken, WorleyParsons and United Group, setting a strong pace for the local profit season.
Reforms to the 457 visa scheme may have helped to alleviate the backlog of applications, but workers hoping to relocate permanently are facing longer waiting periods, according to data from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
The resources boom is helping to feed pay packets across Western Australia, with the state recording the highest increase in wages over the past year as average mining sector salaries pushed past $100,000 for the first time.
Western Australia might be home to the nation's richest man and awash with riches amassed from property and mining booms, but that doesn't necessarily translate into funding for online businesses.
At the height of the tech boom almost a decade ago it would have been laughable to suggest that one of Western Australia's most successful internet entrepreneurs would offer local weather information to fishermen.
At just two and half years out of school, it would be easy to think Paul Slee, as part of an increasingly wired generation, is the right age to be running an online business.
There has been a dramatic changing of the guard in Western Australia's IT consulting sector, with one-time industry heavyweight Unisys suffering a big loss of contracts and staff over the past year.
The broadband question is an inevitable subject when a group of online entrepreneurs is brought together, though the issue did not raise temperatures as much as could be expected at the WA Business News forum.
Although Star Anise owner David Coomer won't reveal the name of the North Perth venue he's planning to open as a new tapas bar, the restaurateur says he's just waiting for the green light from council before starting the project.
Australia Post has denied there is a backlog of mail across Western Australia after it emerged this week that documents sent by Burswood financial advisers Empire Financial Group were taking up to three weeks to reach fund managers.
Jan Kolbusz is the kind of technology professional manager who admits he would most likely have seen out his days in senior management if he didn't live in Perth.
The Labor government entered the state election campaign with a carefully crafted plan, but despite its best efforts, the second week of campaigning was dominated by unexpected twists.
Long-time State Scene readers may recall advice offered in this column to the Gallop government back in May 2002 on the best way to administer the then-emerging but now blossoming lobbying industry.
Perth fashion designer Aurelio Costarella has seen big changes during the past 20 years, with the sector overcoming its small town status to the point where it now attracts interstate and international interest.
Government involvement in the promotion of online business development should go beyond funding and reach more deeply into society, panellists at the WA Business News Online Business forum found.
Rusina Mining Ltd managing director Robert Gregory has increased his interest in the company through the exercise of 3 million options at $0.16 a total cost of $492,000.
Straits Salt Pty Ltd has come out with all guns blazing in its appeal against the Environmental Protection Authority after its $200 million Yannarie Solar salt project on the Exmouth Gulf was knocked back.
Contracting companies Abigroup, Macmahon Holdings, Laing O'Rouke and BGC Contracting have been the major beneficiaries of multi-million dollar road contracts awarded in Western Australia in the past two months.
PERTH-BASED Stirling Products Ltd has bought the worldwide licensing rights for the pet food product PetQuench, with sales of more than $25 million expected during the first five years.
Electricity generation hopeful Western Energy is a step closer to bringing its Kwinana power station proposal to fruition, after West Perth-based CTEC signed on to engineer, procure and construct the facility.
Indonesian media and culture scholar, Krishna Sen, has been appointed to lead The University of Western Australia’s faculty of arts, humanities and social sciences.
Vietnam was once billed as Asia's next economic tiger, but double-digit inflation, a ballooning trade gap, tumbling share prices and banking sector concerns have dampened expectations to a large degree.
ANZ Bank has appointed Megan Carter to its West Perth Business Centre as a relationship manager. Ms Carter has previous experience at both BankWest and Netfin.
The battle between disgruntled union train drivers in the Pilbara and Rio Tinto is still being played out in the Industrial Relations Commission, with millions of dollars in revenue on the line.
High levels of rental property demand are expected to continue in Western Australia as new data shows little relief for renters in the short to medium-term future.
