Global energy company, Chevron, has selected the University of Western Australia to join its three year $6.9 million global university partnership program.
The trend towards more liberal retail trading hours in WA is gaining momentum with the state government approving extended trading throughout December and the City of Bunbury backing deregulation of trading through the year.
Western Metals Ltd has signed a Term Sheet to acquire 100% of the advanced Parys Mountain copper-zinc project on the island of Anglesey in North Wales from Anglesey Mining plc, a UK based mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The state government has launched a $7.7 million North West Shelf environmental study today, to help planners better manage Australia's marine ecosystems.
For the first time since its reporting began, AFG, Australia's largest mortgage broker, has shown that mortgage sales in WA fell every month for the first three months of the year, when compared to sales for the same three months of 2007.
WA's United joins forces with big rival; Opes probes widens to share price manipulation; BHP shares soar on China buy rumours; Stokes cool as WAN goes on foot with profit; Merger growth for Gemini
Kerry Stokes knows how to fire-up imaginations; right now, he’s got the whole of Western Australia and a fair bit of the rest of the country speculating on what he’s really up to with his high-profile push to spill the board of WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd.
Mega-trends in the path of human society open up opportunities for investors and present threats, not only to your wealth. History is littered with examples of societies or indeed civilizations which flourished and then perished or withered away.
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East Perth-based software developer Office Automation Pty Ltd is poised to enter a full commercialisation phase for its software, while keeping focus on research and development.
In an effort to combat an industry shortage of metallurgical technicians, Central Tafe has introduced a cadetship program offering on-the-job and formal training.
Two not-for-profit organisations, The McCusker Foundation for Alzheimer’s Research and Alzheimer’s Australia WA, have teamed up to launch a campaign to assist Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers.
The votality that has characterised the financial markets this year has bred anxiety across the country, but caution may be a more apt term for WA, where its largely business as usual.
After years of deadlock with the state government, the proponent of a private port in Cockburn Sound is hoping a management change will restore life to the project.
After 15 years in the business, Perth catering company Fingerfood Catering has launched an online catering web site, believed to be the first of its kind in WA.
More than 20 years after it was established in WA, Burswood-based town planning and project management firm, Koltasz Smith, has been bought by UK-based environmental consultancy RPS Group plc.
Petroleum is WA's biggest export earner and if the discussions at this week’s Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference are any guide, oil and gas projects are set to make an even bigger contribution in the future.
Stock market volatility has put a dampener on the number of Western Australian companies that floated during the March quarter, but surprisingly, the amount of funds raised was 75 per cent higher than in the same period last year.
ARC Energy Ltd managing director Eric Streitberg has been awarded the gas industry’s highest award, the Reg Sprigg Medal for outstanding service to the industry.
Perth-based Nkwe Platinum Ltd has chosen to list on London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market, marking a change from the flurry of Australian resource companies turning their attention, and their pockets, towards Canada.
TAKEOVER target Midwest Corporation Ltd has announced a 10-week delay in completion of its pre-feasibility study for its flagship Weld Range iron ore project in the Mid West region, because of delays
Western Power has responded to the skilled labour shortages and rising costs in Western Australia by adopting a fundamentally different approach to its contracting and capital works program.
Two Western Australian mining companies have warmed to the idea of heading to the Arctic north, with Greenland becoming the main focus for Ironbark Gold Ltd and Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd.
