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Balcatta-based Repcol has announced plans to invest nearly $20 million in mining services company Resource Equipment Rentals and sell its debt collection business for $350,000.

The state opposition has called for $4 million from the royalties for regions fund to be committed to the $171 million Ravensthorpe biomass energy project, which could create hundreds of jobs in the region.

The state's supply of land for home development is expected to smooth out after the government said it will reintroduce a land tax concession in next month's state budget.

The federal government says there is still some way to go before a proposed liquefied natural gas project in the Kimberley region is approved.

Shares in Bonaparte Diamonds have risen as a second suitor, Queensland company Union Resources, enters the takeover battle.

Iluka Resources expects to pocket $77 million from the sale of its controlling stake in Queensland company Consolidated Rutile after Unimin Australia launched a $150 million takeover bid.

Shares in Anvil Mining have slipped in morning trade as the copper miner enters an underwriting deal for its $C30 million ($A34 million) capital raising.

Property taxes remain one of the biggest revenue earners for government, with the state and local governments in Western Australia raking in more than $4 billion from property taxes last financial year.

Woodside Petroleum announced today that the Kimberley LNG hub was its preferred site for developing its Browse Basin gas fields, even though its joint venture partners have not yet made a decision.

The listed entity of Costarella Design Ltd is preparing to change its activity and name after acquiring Asian Centre for Liver Diseases and Transplantation Ltd.

The Federal Government has officially launched the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute today, with support from 85 bodies including 40 major companies.

China's GDP growth has slowed to its lowest rate in almost 10 years, growing 6.1 per cent in the year to March, in further bad news for Australia's economy.

Copper miner Anvil Mining has called a trading halt while its stockbrokers seek to obtain subscriptions for a C$30 million (A$34 million) capital raising.

Stockland has secured Shell Development Australia, a subsidiary of global energy company Royal Dutch Shell, as a major tenant at its new 2 Victoria Avenue office building in Perth.

WA junior Emmerson Resources has entered into a landmark $28 million binding agreement with Ivanhoe Australia to fast track the discovery of potentially world-class deposits within its fully-owned tenements at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

THE gold mining industry continues to be a bright spot in Western Australia with the announcement this week of a new project and a new takeover battle.

THE state's second largest residential builder has called on the federal government to extend the boost to the first homeowners grant until the end of the year and extend the grant to second and third homeowners to stimulate the industry.

TWO of the state's internet service providers have differing views of the federal government's $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) plan and what it means for their business.

POLISHING his crystal ball Briefcase believes that, after such a strong bear market rally on the local and global stock markets, some pullback is likely.

THE resource sector has been exposed to higher levels of fraud involving the theft of funds and physical assets due to increased jobs uncertainty, according to KPMG.

MARKET sentiment surrounding nickel appears to be on the rise translating to higher shares prices for Western Australia's nickel miners, but it's too early to call a turnaround for the base metal.

FOLLOWING Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's endorsement of Australian uranium export trade with China, the Chamber of Minerals and Energy believes working with communities on providing soft infrastructure will be the key challenge facing the st

A PERTH charity has demonstrated it's not how much you have that counts, it's what you do with it.

THE state government has ramped up initiatives to soften the impact of job cuts in regional areas as a result of the global economic meltdown.

The team at Feral Brewing Company are wild about making beer ... and it seems the punters are wild about drinking it. Heather Bennett reports.

THE state government has released the fourth instalment in a series of housing initiatives to address acute housing shortages in the Pilbara.

Peter Hickson has catered to all types of people in his 40 years in the industry.

THE recent completion of a nickel concentrator plant and a proposed expansion to service a new mine makes Western Areas' Forrestania project a rare good story in the nickel world.

Some hard questions still need to be answered on Chinese investment in Australia.

In the second part of our series on big ideas for WA, we feature FORM's Lynda Dorrington,a passionate advocate for change.

How are political and business decisions made to achieve short-term goals of any real benefit to society?

Governments are seeking new, innovative approaches to social housing after almost a decade of stagnation.