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For those planning a mid-year trip to the state's South West, a stop off in Bunbury could enhance your wine experience. The Wine Education Centre is hosting a half-day wine course that aims to “demystify wine and provide fundamental tips to get through th

Western Australia's remarkable run of good economic news continued this month with the unemployment rate falling to the lowest level since official records started 30 years ago.

State Scene dislikes pooh poohers – those who, just for the heck of it, pull down everything others feel nice or comfortable about.

Regrets abound in financial markets, especially when share prices fall sharply. But what about shares that rise sharply; can anyone have regrets about that?

The state's South West has long been the playground of choice for the suits on the terrace. They have, over the years, bought beach shacks and either embarked on massive renovations or demolished and rebuilt.

Emirates is hoping to capitalise on expected growth in the Australian travel market by increasing its capacity and doubling the frequency of its flights to 98 a week over the next seven years.

Dan Pannell stopped sending his Picardy wine to Qantas years ago after seemingly failing to secure a plum spot on the airline's wine list.

Got a spare $10,000 and some time off? WA Business News has sourced some of Western Australia's finest private holiday homes, boasting sweeping views along the South West and Great Southern coastlines and the latest in designer interiors and appliances.

Opera in the park - Supreme Court Gardens will come alive on Friday February 16 at 8.30pm with the City of Perth's 16th edition of the Opera in the Park presenting Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Health retreats have typically evoked images of preening and pampering, with cucumber facial treatments, mud wraps and massages that last for hours.

Melbourne-based gold company St Barbara Ltd will pay $700,000 to Perth-based Westgold Resources NL in settlement of a claim commenced seven years ago.

Perth-based asset management company PearlStreet Ltd has raised $8 million through its initial public offer, to fund future acquisitive growth.

Federal Parliament had echoes of 1970's children's TV this week, with John "The Fonz" Howard and Kevin "Donald Duck" Rudd competing for the same audience - State Premiers - as the water debate continued.

This year's vintage is under way almost a fortnight ahead of schedule, and early indications from winemakers suggest that 2007 will be the year of great reds.

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Fans of Must Winebar will be able to indulge their enthusiasm for bubbly later this year, with the venue's owners in the midst of developing an upstairs champagne lounge.

Clandestine political lobbying, restrictive retail hours, “bandit trading”, petty government enforcers, jailing and hefty fine threats, phony referendums, political opportunism, and much more.

It never rains but it pours, so they say.

A proposed $2 billion radio telescope in the Mid West is forcing infrastructure and mining companies in the once-sleepy region to reshape their plans.

The Mid West region has established itself as Western Australia's second iron ore province after the Pilbara, with three companies now exporting ore through Geraldton and a fourth planning to start exports next year.

Australia's prospects of hosting the world's biggest telescope have hit a significant hurdle after the co-ordinating committee was forced to consider an alternative location.

Perth's office market vacancy rates have tightened further with the Property Council of Australia (WA) this week reporting CBD vacancy levels of just 0.9 per cent.

The City of Perth is set to call a summit of government, property industry and private parking representatives within days to address the city's growing parking woes.

Northbridge's Mustang Bar has won a dispute with its landlord at the State Administrative Tribunal over the determination of its rent.

Conflicts of interest have been in the news lately, but mainly at the top end of town, and mainly because of internal boardroom squabbles.

Pressure to consolidate is one of the major issues facing small agencies in the not-for-profit sector, driven largely by government funding strategies and corporate sponsors' preference for brand names.

Data recovery and storage company, SpectrumData Ltd, has accepted a request by US space agency NASA to retrieve data from 200 magnetic reel tapes broadcast more than 35 years ago.

If you can buy a big bottle of multi-vitamins for $20 why do some people still pay $30?There is a one-word answer: ignorance.

Staff retention is an ongoing challenge for many not-for-profit human services providers in competition with the private sector.

Ismail (Ish) Tosun doesn't want to have another year like 2006.

From 1920 until 1990, humanity faced a dangerous worldwide fraternity – the Bolsheviks – bearers of a primitive, murderous ideology whose founder, Vladimir Lenin, unfortunately, gained executive power violently in Petrograd in 1917.

The new owners of Subiaco's Atlantic Restaurant are in the midst of planning some big changes for the venue.