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Mention the YMCA to many people and they'll think of the 1979 hit song by the Village People, which at face value extols the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association.

THE growth in major resources and infrastructure projects in Western Australia has fuelled the expansion of local engineering firms, led by industry giant WorleyParsons.

If Western Australia plays its cards right, the state will benefit from a succession of giant oil and gas projects over the next decade that will deliver big economic dividends for 30 or more years.

Traditional continental delis with a wide variety of cheese on offer, dozens of different cold meats and an Aladdin's cave of exotic imported products, are not so common in Perth anymore.

INTERNATIONAL energy services company Wood Group has expanded its presence in the Asia-Pacific with three investments in the Australian market in six months.

The wealth of major project activity in Western Australia has been a boon for local contracting firms, which are reaping the rewards of record high bidding activity in both the infrastructure and resources sectors.

A number of Western Australian finalists featured in the 2008 Australian Gourmet Traveller Awards, with East Perth's new fine dining destination Restaurant Amuse, Must Wine Bar sommelier Emma Sputore and the glamorous 1907 bar among those in line for top

WHILE critics have been quick to jump on the Labor-bashing bandwagon after the state election, there hasn't been much reflection on some of the strategic challenges that will face the next state government, whoever leads it.

Rising energy, steel and labour costs, and the added burden of investors snubbing the industry has led to a spate of casualties in the gold sector in recent years.

Three Midwest Corporation directors have today resigned from the company as two new directors from majority shareholder Sinosteel are appointed.

The final results of votes placed in crucial seats in the state election will not be known before Sunday as representatives from the major political parties met with the Western Australia Electoral Commission today.

Just a week after striking a $50 million agreement to develop an African project, Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd has struck its first hiccup with the deal.

Seven of the eight companies facing prosecution over the deaths of two workers during Cyclone George last year have not entered a plea in the Perth Magistrates Court today.

Gold stocks have followed the downward trajectory of the precious metal with its trading price falling nearly $US30 today.

Perth-based barramundi farmer Australis Aquaculture Ltd has signed a deal with United States supermarket retailer Safeway Inc to supply its produce to all 1740 stores.

West Perth-based Bathurst Resources Ltd will move to acquire the remaining interest in a United States coal miner following shareholder approval.

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd has extended a drill and blast contract with Ausdrill Ltd in a deal that will generate the mining services company over $300 million in revenue over five years.

A major boost in the amount and value of iron ore exports has helped lift the nation's export earnings from mineral resources to a record $116 billion in the 2008 financial year, a commodity forecaster has reported.

Two of Premier Alan Carpenter’s hand-picked candidates, Reece Whitby and Karen Brown, have spectacularly failed to win voter support.

The National Party has resisted overtures to form a governing coalition with the Liberal Party, vowing to deal with whichever party offers the best deal for its supporters in the bush.

Western Australia faces a period of unprecedented political uncertainty after the major parties failed to win a majority of seats in yesterday's state election.

Mineral production in Australia will slide by 210 million tonnes by 2020 if a 10 per cent reduction in emissions is set, according to the Minerals Council of Australia, while conservationists have labeled the target as "laughable".

South Perth-based uranium company Extract Resources Ltd has entered into a merger agreement with London-listed Kalahari Minerals Ltd in a scrip deal worth over $210 million.

Portman Ltd said it is assessing its options of its shareholding in Golden West Resources Ltd after a Federal Court judge today ruled against the validity of its proxy forms lodged for last week's extraordinary meeting.

The leaders of the Labor and Liberal parties made a final pitch for voter support today as another opinion poll suggested the result of tomorrow's state election is too close to call.

Panoramic Resources Ltd has struck a deal with BHP Billiton Nickel West to supply more nickel ore for processing from its Lanfranchi project in Western Australia in the 2009 financial year.

A $72 million price tag has been placed on the development of Perth-based Tiger Resources Ltd's African copper project with payback for operation pegged at one-and-a-half years.

Bell Potter Securities Ltd has been fined $145,000 by the ASX Disciplinary Tribunal for breaching trading and record keeping rules for the dealing of shares in Victorian company Genetic Technologies Ltd.

Corporate executives who are remunerated via shares and options will continue to be subject to close scrutiny from the Australian Tax Office this financial year, according to Deloitte Reward partner Joe Tropeano.

It may have been a tough past six months for the resource sector but not so according to Standard & Poor's as changes to its S&P/ASX indices reveal a majority of inclusions being resource stocks.

Perth businessman Warren Anderson has been named as a key player in the collapse of fuel pill company Firepower, which left its shareholders millions of dollars out of pocket.

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