Site works to reconnect Perth with Northbridge will start at the end of this year as the state government today revealed its master plan following three years of research and design.
United Group Ltd has won several new rail contracts worth $100 million which include the building of iron ore wagons for BHP Billiton's operations in the Pilbara region.
Perth-based iron ore miner Portman Ltd has increased its iron ore prices, following Rio Tinto Ltd's new deal with Baosteel, as it falls short of its $241 million off-market share buy-back.
Mt Pleasant-based oil and gas explorer Comet Ridge Ltd has divested its United States projects worth $7.3 million, in a deal with New York-based equity capital firm Pine Brook Road Partners.
Ausdrill Ltd's managing director Ron Sayers has continued to top up his interest in the company which is fending off a takeover bid by Macmahon Holdings Ltd.
The impact of the gas crisis will cost Newcrest Mining Ltd an extra $40 million up to when the Varanus Island gas facility resumes partial production in August.
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The State Government multi-million dollar acquisition fund campaign was launched last night with Alan Carpenter announcing that four corporations pledged a total of $4 million to the Art Gallery of WA, to help build a world-renowned art collection.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suffered a setback in a $245 million legal action against directors of the failed Westpoint group, with the Federal Court ruling ASIC could not continue action instituted by Westpoint's liquidator.
Transfield Services has upgraded the Kemerton Power Station's output by more than 40 megawatts in high summer temperatures, ahead of schedule and in time to support Western Australia's increasing energy needs.
Perth-based asset management firm PearlStreet Ltd has forecast revenue for the 2008 financial year at $80 million, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation is expected to be up to $8.5 million.
Two Western Australian resource companies have received a one-star rating for corporate governance, according to a report by chartered accountants WHK Horwath.
The state Liberal party has called on the Carpenter government to apologise to the community over the Water Corporation's Kwinana desalination plant advertising campaign, which was found to be misleading by the corporate watchdog.
Macmahon Contractors Pty Ltd has been selected as the preferred proponent for the extension of Reid Highway from West Swan Road to Great Northern Highway.
Perth-based Grange Resources Ltd is set to step into the producer ring later this year following joint venture approval to develop an iron ore mine in Malaysia.
Shares in Territory Resources Ltd have been placed in a trading halt pending the release of an announcement on the re-alignment of the company going forward.
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As the gas crisis continues to affect the state's industries and households, the release of a timetable of when production will resume at the Varanus Island gas facility has provided little comfort.
When the resources boom hit its straps four or five years ago, many profitable mining services and mining technology organisations emerged in Western Australia with a renewed focus.
Food critics the world over know that the quality and the source of the products on the plate of a fine dining restaurant are just as important as the skills of the person who cooked it, or the environment in which it is served.
Mining engineering students at Curtin University's Bentley campus and the Kalgoorlie-based Western Australian School of Mines may soon be able to access lectures remotely and course content from interstate universities, if a plan to roll out high bandwidt
The state's resources boom has created a platform to launch many local specialist software companies into the international marketplace, creating a wealth of opportunities and demand for mining services technology.
The fallout from mystery fuel-additives group Firepower continues to grow with up to 600 Western Australian investors facing the prospect that their shares could be worthless.
"We've had no vision since Charlie Court ruled here."
That was the message one representative of Perth's mining and resources sector gave to WA Business News' recent mining services and mining technology forum.
Austal's Rothwell steps down PERTH-BASED shipbuilder Austal Ltd's executive chairman John Rothwell will step down from his executive role but will continue as chairman, while its US-based chief execu
The debate over development of Western Australia's iron ore industry seems to have given rise to a number of myths that are distorting informed discussion.
A quarter of Western Australian exporters intend to move at least part of their business offshore within the next five years, the latest DHL Export Barometer survey has found.
There's nothing The Note likes better than a conspiracy theory, and there's nothing like an explosion that stops 30 per cent of the state's gas from reaching its users to prompt a few.
Just as political correctness, media spin, and obsessive management of the compressed daily news cycle become the norm, a bit of old-style Western Australia has burst back onto the state's dilapidated political stage.
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