Premier Colin Barnett remains optimistic that Inpex may change its mind over the location of its $15 billion liquefied natural gas project after meeting with the company's senior executives.
Mining entrepreneur Tony Sage has been appointed to the board of Perth-based gold explorer Tianshan Goldfields, taking over from Graham Woolford who has tendered his resignation.
Gold miner St Barbara, which holds operations in Western Australia, expects to extend its half-year loss to some $44 million as a result of write downs and lower carrying values of listed investments.
Engineering and construction company Paladio Group says it is well placed to deliver a profit for fiscal 2009 despite a possible $4 million hit from the suspension of works at the Windimurra Vanadium project.
Administrators for Monarch Gold Mining say the Minjar gold project is likely to be sold within the next few days as a mixture of local and overseas parties express interests in other assets.
Global Construction Services says it will take a more conservative approach to acquisitions as it delivers a 15 per cent increase in its interim net profit of $5.4 million.
Losses from discontinuing operations have hit Clough's bottom line with the engineering and construction company reporting a 30 per cent fall in its interim net profit.
The state government has named Mirvac/Cbus Property as the preferred proponent for the redevelopment of Perth's Old Treasury Buildings following an extensive evaluation process.
AS Local Government Minister John Castrilli continues to advocate mergers of local councils, some councils that have already undergone amalgamation say local communities feared the loss of a town's cultural identity.
THE fallout from the global financial crisis has left many big investors with red faces as poor due diligence or undue risk taking has been exposed by the seismic wrenching in the financial system.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.
IN what is already being pegged as the biggest office leasing deal of the year, Chevron has signed a 10-year lease agreement for the entire 14-level Dynons Plaza office tower.
UNIONS and employer groups have become unlikely allies in jointly resisting the federal government's proposed model for occupational health and safety reform.
THREE Western Australian companies servicing the resource sector have managed to defy the economic downturn to report record sales and profits in the half-year to December 2008.
DESPITE the doom and gloom coming from the state's mining sector, the January Deloitte WA Index revealed stock values of miners rose more than 3 per cent, bucking the overall trend.
A PH.D project at the University of Western Australia hopes to change the way houses in bushfire-prone areas are designed by developing a structure that can survive a fire without human intervention.
