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The world of Western Australian olives will be on show during York's Olive Festival, to be held on June 25 and 26.

Oceanfront Rockingham Beach Road is to become the venue of a new luxury apartment strip offering high-rise ocean views of Garden and Rottnest islands.

Former Orbital Engine Corporation chief executive Kim Schlunke came to some interesting conclusions when he sat down three years ago to ponder the future of recreational transport.

The colour, vibrancy and unique taste of Croatian cuisine will be on display in Perth next week at the 10th annual Croatian Food Festival at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle.

Perth investors who like the taste of barramundi are currently in the rare position of being able to select from an investment menu with three Western Australian aquaculture companies.

There has been much reference to the promised tax cuts in this year's Federal Budget, with the Labor opposition damning its “unfairness” while supporters have emailed around the famous restaurant analogy we published on this page last year.

State Scene has three excellent informants with a good view into what's happening within Canberra's conservative elite headed by John Howard and John Anderson.

What do the chaps at Crosby Partners know that eludes Australian investors? Simple really. Every morning they look at a map of the world and ask a simple question: “has China disappeared?”

We are very, very uncomfortable that Foodland Associated Ltd has agreed to sell 16 of its best Action supermarkets in Western Australia to one of the two dominant grocery conglome

Home-grown technology developed by private Perth company McRobert Aquaculture Systems has been promoted as having the potential to “revolutionise” the global aquaculture industry.

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Perth's ‘great divide' is still a long way from being straddled.

High-density residential approvals in Perth have fallen by more than 60 per cent during the past two quarters.

Nobody takes the idea of fiercely parochial food and wine tourism as seriously as, or treats it with more panache than, Jo and Edwin Grist.

Leanne Preston is fast becoming Australia's version of UK businesswoman and The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, a comparison she is only too happy about.

When a company goes from a standing start to nearly 400 staff in the space of three years, you might think it would be time to take stock and consolidate.

The State Government is undoubtedly leading the charge when it comes to sustainability, insisting that any commercial building it is considering tenanting have at least a three and a half green star rating

Just in case anyone missed me, I have had the great pleasure of visiting the State's vast North West with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry's annual tour.

As the only architect in Western Australia with professional indemnity insurance to cover work on sites with fuel related activities and fuel storage and dispensing installations, Brian Wright has carved a niche in the market

John Howard and his senior ministers, all of whom hold interstate seats, show all the signs of embarking upon megalomaniacal bureaucratic practices rather than remaining the levelheaded administrators that Australians rightly expect.

The issue of BYO has recently been thrust back into Perth's restaurant scene.

There is nothing new about the sight of hot money looking for a fat profit.

Leederville's best kept burger secret is out. Retro Betty's, famed for its generously proportioned homemade hamburgers, is moving to Innaloo.

In 2003, when WA Business News and Deloitte ran the first Rising Stars survey, the top-ranked business was advertising agency Gatecrasher.

Growth businesses are organisations with an expanding presence and recognised brand.

What stands Change Corporation ahead of its competitors, according to the company's managing director Rob Evans, is providing clients with a combined consulting and IT solutions service, but then going one step further and implementing the technology t

Messages on Hold managing director Kym Illman attributes the growth of his business to a total focus on customer service.

Balcatta-based Blackadder Group's growing client base includes CBD high-rises, Goldfields and North-West resource projects, industrial complexes, including water treatment plants, freeway and rail repair, extension and modification, and offshore oil and g

Niche markets can be hard to grow in, especially since marketing requires selling a brand and often the business concept.

PIVoD Technologies, a Perth-based provider of media on demand technology for use in museums, as well as residential and corporate systems, has secured a position in this year's Rising Stars.

With interest rates at their lowest levels in 20 years, the Australian mortgage market has never been healthier. But as rates have begun to climb this year, the number of new loan approvals is diminishing.