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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.

Perth-based engineering and development company GRD Ltd gold spinoff OceanaGold Ltd has successfully completed its merger with NSW-based Climax Mining Ltd.

Big retailers, big miners and big contractors sit at the top of WA Business News' second annual survey to find the state's largest employers.

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.

The state government is by far the biggest employer in Western Australia with 101,920 public servants in June 2006 compared with 98,621 in June 2005.

An 8 per cent fall in university applications in Western Australia for 2006 entry had an immediate impact on staff numbers at Edith Cowan University.

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.

Greed, in case you hadn't noticed, is rampant.

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.

Wagyu, the Japanese breed of beef famed for its marbled fat, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in recent years.

The Margaret River region will host the MasterCard World Wine and Travel Summit from November 13 to 17.

The Labor government led by former ABC journalist Alan Carpenter is doing its level best to put the Paul Omodei-led Liberal opposition into power.

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.

The 2007 WA Business News 40under40 Awards program was launched at a breakfast forum featuring four high-profile past winners.

It seems to come around so quickly every year, but our search for the 2007 40under40 officially started last Wednesday at the ‘Dynamic Entrepreneurs in the Boom' breakfast as part of the WA Business News Success and Leadership series.

Finding a balance between work and life outside of business appears to be some way off for the entrepreneurial panellists at the WA Business News Success and Leadership event.

Identifying and nurturing future leaders within the business was a key issue discussed at last week's breakfast forum, with all four panellists highlighting the problems while stressing the importance of seeking out key personnel able to take up the compa

Facing adversity is nothing new to Edward Rigg, having grown up on a farm, often in drought conditions, at Coorow, north of Perth.

His role as a technology leader in Western Australia was well-known when Michael Malone was crowned 40under40 1st Amongst Equals earlier this year; a far cry from when he graduated from university in the early 1990s, when few knew anything about the inter

Imagine you could be premier of Western Australia for a day; what policies would you put forward to ensure the state's future prosperity?

Staff retention and costs issues associated with the state's protracted economic growth were among the key issues raised by panellists at the breakfast forum.

Suzan Pervan says her luckiest break came following her departure from top four chartered accounting firm Ernst & Young, as it provided the catalyst for her, and Ernst and Young partner Dalton Gooding, to establish Gooding Pervan Chartered Accountants.

Western Australian Planning Commission chairman Jeremy Dawkins believes the state's future regional planning powers may be decentralised, with regional lead agencies taking control using their own budgets and simple region schemes.

Brett Martin's Trailcraft group of companies manufactures aluminium trailer boats, boat trailers and caravans and sells them through five of its own retail stores and 27 independently owner retail outlets across Australia.

The wine business has bruised more than a few entrepreneurs in recent years but it certainly didn't dissuade the Rathbone family from stepping across the Nullarbor to claim their own piece of Margaret River.

Mining might have received all the headlines in the past year, but Tessitura managing director and founder Liddy McCall is proof that other sectors are firing as well.

Daylight saving is an issue that I welcome back onto the agenda, even if I am deeply suspicious about how it has suddenly woken from its coma after more than a decade on drip-feed.

“Under new management”. We've all seen that sign many times on an A-frame outside a business, or writ-large across a shop window.

The arena at the former El Caballo Blanco will echo to the clattering hooves of a new generation of Andalusian stallions from next year, as the resort's new owners embark on a multi-million dollar upgrade.