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.
Futuris profit warning sparks calls for change; Limit on state-owned investment; Kiernan pressures Territory to save Monarch; BHP, Exxon in $1.5bn gas project; Pratt pursuit 'not personal'
Australia's commodity exports are tipped to surge 40 per cent to $212 billion during the coming financial year, led by massive growth in the minerals and energy sectors.
More than two-and-a-half years after kicking off the process, the state government has finally been handed a final report on its infrastructure strategy.
More than 200 arts professionals, along with representatives from the business community and government, this week attended an all-day workshop organised by the Committee for Perth to discuss how Perth can develop its vision of the arts and culture.
Port Hedland's status as one of the world's largest bulk export ports is set to be reinforced with current and proposed developments leading to further growth in export volumes.
Western Australia is renowned as one of the world's great mining provinces, but less well known is the emergence of Perth as a global centre for mining services.
The battle for gas allocation in the wake of the Varanus Island incident has become hotter as industry starts to grapple with the longevity of the crisis, which is expected to continue in some form until December.
Young workers in today's mining services and resources industry are indolent and arrogant, according to some participants at the WA Business News mining services forum.
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.
