Demand is mounting from some industry sectors for the allocation of additional places in education and training courses as the skills shortage bites businesses statewide.
The upward movement in official interest rates has affected confidence among potential borrowers in Western Australia, according to figures from the Department of Land Information.
With the issue of carbon emissions firmly on the national agenda, a not-for-profit group in Perth is encouraging members of the public to reduce their carbon footprint.
A group of the most influential hoteliers in the country sat in Sydney's Hilton Hotel recently and confirmed what many of Perth's Sunday session devotees and midweek revellers already knew; the Brisbane Hotel is the best hotel in the country.
Current parliamentary moves to impose daylight saving upon Western Australians shows just how many state MPs have little regard for democratic principles and processes.
AUSTRALIA'S major ports have witnessed an increase in stevedoring unit costs and revenues while productivity has fallen, according to an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report releas
Northbridge-based Leisure and Allied Industries continues to expand its operations in Asia, having recently secured one of India's largest retail department store chains as a partner.
It is with a great deal of caution that I wade in to comment on the current Corruption and Crime Commission matter relating to the proposed Canal Rocks development at Smiths Beach in the Shire of Busselton.
Caxton Co-operative was developed by five like-minded WA Snap Printing franchise holders as a way of growing their individual businesses by collectively investing in equipment to expand of their services.
The State Administrative Tribunal's recent approval of an $80 million 12-storey development for Hawthorne Place in Burswood has set the wheels in motion for a transformation of the Causeway precinct.
Perth-based engineering and development company GRD Ltd gold spinoff OceanaGold Ltd has successfully completed its merger with NSW-based Climax Mining Ltd.
When nickel producer Minara Resources decided last year to pursue the development of a $25 million heap leach demonstration plant, it ran into an unexpected problem.
Perth's Royal Kings Park Tennis Club is aiming to host a Davis Cup tie after the completion of its $20 million redevelopment, scheduled for March next year, with club officials confirming they are in discussions with organisers of the tournament.
A further rise in interest rates next week, coupled with increasing housing prices and slow residential land releases in Western Australia, has industry analysts predicting a significant fall in housing starts in 2006-07.
A cord blood bank facility that could save the lives of Western Australians living with leukaemia, blood cancers and other malignant genetic diseases is to be developed in Perth.
Just in case anyone mistakes my cynicism last week about daylight saving suddenly having emerged on the political agenda, it was the process, not the outcome, I was commenting on.
Manufacturing is widely perceived to be an industry in terminal decline, so it's rather surprising that the Australian Bureau of Statistics found it to be one of Western Australia's biggest industry sectors, supporting more than 100,000 jobs.
Property and business services has been the fastest growing industry sector in Western Australia over the past 20 years, Australian Bureau of Statistics data has found.
