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The share prices of two Perth-based companies have shot up 40% or more today on the back of uranium and other commodity results from their projects in Malawi and Sweden.

The North West Shelf Venture has approved a $5 billion expansion of its gas production operations off WA's northern coast, adding to the extraordinary boom in oil and gas projects.

ANZ forces Opes Prime share sale; Market rout the worst in 20 years; The tax man cometh for you, big earner; BHP eyes partnerships with chinese miners to ramp up supply; Offshore cash key for U-stocks

ComputerCORP Ltd today announced an agreement to purchase Queensland IT firm Coretech for up to $4.2 million in staged cash and share payments over two years.

State Development Minister Eric Ripper today rejected a claim in The Australian newspaper that the State Government had decided that it would not permit Browse Basin LNG proponents to operate a single common-user LNG hub in the Kimberley.

Windimurra Vanadium Ltd today completed a $25 million capital raising, joining a handful of small and mid-cap mining companies thathave defied the market downturn to raise additional funds.

Incremental Petroleum Limited has announced that it has concluded the purchase all of a further 10 per cent equity in the Edirne licence in Western Turkey from one of its Turkish partners for US$1.5 million.

Territory Resources, the iron ore company headed up by WA mining businessman Michael Kiernan, has lifted its stake in mineral sands producer Olympia Resources, following Olympia's rejection of its $15.5 million take over bid yesterday.

PERTH-based mineral sands producer Olympia Resources has rejected Territory Resources takeover cash bid, saying its offer was less than half of what it should be according to an independent expert.

Aspiring power generation company Aviva Corporation Ltd has appointed former Western Power managing director Tony Iannello as its chairman.

Property and maintenance services company Spotless Group Ltd has made a hostile $556 million bid for Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd, one year after PMS bought Perth-based Integrated Group Ltd.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court in Sydney against communications retailer Allphones Retail Pty Limited, which has allegedly breached the Franchising Code of Conduct.

Welshpool-based Allied Gold has attracted a $35 million injection from gold miner Barrick Gold Corporation for its PNG projects.

The RBA governor Mr Glenn Stevens delivered a speech this morning to Smart Capital 2008: The Euromoney Australian Financial Markets Innovation Congress in Sydney.

A local engineering group has been awarded nearly $3 million by the federal government to fast track the commercialisation of technology that is designed to save rail companies time and money.

Could a big outback utility be created by the merger of Horizon Power with the regional operations of the giant Water Corporation?

Listed property companies in economic slow point.

Finance fall-out still a big unknown  

The Midland Redevelopment Authority's renewal project.

The wife of Kevin Rudd’s chief of staff, David Epstein, is to run the Canberra office of major lobbying concern, Government Relations Australia (GRA), which also operates in Western Australia.

The state’s booming resource sector is proving to be a boon for Subiaco-based construction firm DORIC, which is currently locked in final negotiations for two more contracts, while the releases of its refurbished houses were quickly snapped up over the we

You don’t have to be born here to be accepted.

Development in Margaret River over the next 20 years should be contained in small hamlet-style nodes, rather than large residential estates, according to the shire’s townsite strategy, which was released for public comment last week.

The second incarnation of the infamous nickel mine that sparked the Poseidon bubble of the early 1970s is sure to have many closely watching the development of Poseidon mark 11, especially because of Andrew Forrest’s involvement.

The owners of tiger, tiger remain unsure about their future.

Intellect future under a cloud.

Perth’s coffee culture is getting richer by the day.

As the first stage of Northbridge Link gets under way, small retailers in the fashion and restaurant industries are lifting the area.

I wonder if there are any readers who have not yet heard about the impending peak of global oil production.

William Street and its surrounds has gone through something of a revival in recent times.

Increased immigration into Western Australia has helped the state record the highest level of population growth in the country, as the nation experiences its fastest growth rate in 18 years.

Northbridge is building on its reputation for providing authentic, well-priced international cuisine, with a new breed of eateries bringing a fresh flavour to the area, largely in response to the wider demographic changes occurring just outside of the mai