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The local share market has now lost ground for two straight weeks after closing down 0.8 per cent on the day, and 0.9 per cent on the week.

The property giant has taken four St Georges Terrace properties off the market, including the Channel 9 headquarters, citing strong leasing conditions.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Mark McGowan's cabinet reshuffle, Clough, gas shortages, Genesis Minerals and St Barbara, CBH Group, the year in markets, HealthEngine, Artrya and the SKA.

A senior economist is tipping a commodities boom powered by a super-squeeze on critical metals.

A proposed apartment block in North Perth has been knocked back, with an assessment panel finding the 13-storey project "excessive" and an "overdevelopment".

Mineral Resources hopes to bolster its position in Western Australia’s energy sector by acquiring Norwest Energy, of which keen Perth Basin investor Gina Rinehart is also a shareholder.

The state government has committed an additional $84 million into a $1.6 billion fund to support health and medical research over the next four years.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced the government will abolish the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

A record harvest and high prices due to the Ukrainian conflict push grain giant CBH close to a $500 million surplus.

NAB says higher inflation, rising interest rates and slower growth are starting to affect both businesses and consumers.

Next year is shaping up as a much tougher economic period amid growing fears of a global recession.

Limitless: Having taken its AI technology to an IPO, Artrya is working to overcome regulatory hurdles.

Listed gold miners in Gascoyne’s data room

APM is set to to buy NDIS therapy provider Everyday Independence for $52 million-plus in the company’s third acquisition since listing on the ASX over a year ago.

A series of cash rate hikes by the central bank has not dented Australia’s job market, with unemployment in WA at 3.5 per cent.

John Caratti-controlled Harvard Nominees has been ordered to pay the legal costs of some of the parties it took to court over leases to its Esperance farmland.

Senior editor Mark Pownall goes behind some of the stories that feature in this year's dynasties feature.

ANALYSIS: Mark McGowan’s ministerial reshuffle was in many respects a sideshow – real power in the government remains with a small group of ministers and advisers close to the premier.

Australian shares have fallen after the US Federal Reserve quashed hopes for a Santa rally when announcing its final rate hike of 2022.

The property investment group has bought a 4,903sqm medical facility with a six-year lease to Australian Clinical Labs.

An energy relief package for households and businesses that caps the price of gas has passed parliament.

Surging salary costs and sagging royalty revenue have done little to harm the state’s finances, with today’s mid-year budget review showing a minor improvement in the government's projected surplus.

Limitless: WA could become a globally significant supercomputing hub on the back of the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array development.

Alcoa Vice President of Transformation Rob Bear has moved from the United States to be the mining giant’s Australian boss as a replacement search for Michael Gollschewski continues.

Rapid approvals proposed for green energy projects should also be available to gas producers, the industry has said, as a major shortage of the fuel is forecast for WA.

The former head coach of Australia’s national cricket team will become an independent non-executive director of Chris Ellison’s iron ore and lithium business in January 2023.

CBH Group has announced a partnership with transportation supplier Progress Rail to acquire seven new locomotives.

A fresh model adopted by a London university offers food for thought for Australian universities recovering from the impacts of the pandemic.

Three years after being named WA’s Innovator of the Year, crane technology company Roborigger is getting commercial traction.

Energy markets are responding pre-emptively to the federal government's price cap proposal, demonstrating it's already having a dampening effect on prices.

Webuild primed for Clough projects

Almost a quarter of WA’s gas needs could be unmet in 10 years, the market operator has warned, while a smaller shortage looms as soon as 2023.