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Former federal minister Ben Morton, former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and Noongar elder Richard Walley will join state government boards in the new year.

WA won’t escape higher energy costs as the political plays grind on.

Business News values the assets of WA’s richest people, and explores how they’ve used that wealth in 2022.

Three industrial sites in Western Australia have been snapped up this month, with the deals amounting to $40 million.

Mining and exploration company Solstice has appointed Nick Castleden as chief executive and managing director.

The state government has tabled what it says will be a final pay bump of between 3 per cent and 4.5 per cent to WA nurses and called on the union to come back to the negotiating table on working conditions.

Matrix Composites and Engineering is set to produce and deliver a buoyancy system valued at approximately $44 million for a major deep-water project in Brazil.

WA’s largest charity has fallen away from its number one position for the first time since 2014, suffering a financial loss of $10.8 million.

Nearly 700 people attended WA’s long-running Women in Technology conference.

TPG and Telstra will appeal after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission declined to approve their proposed $1.8 billion network-sharing deal.

Limitless: Business News visits the warehouse where Fortescue hopes to reshape the future of energy.

Clough could be taken ‘around the world’: Webuild global CEO

A man linked to Mount Hawthorn businessman Chris Marco has lost his appeal to rid his responsibility to repay parties who suffered losses, claiming he was only the middleman.

Liontown Resources is planning to operate the Kathleen Valley Lithium Project with 100 per cent renewable energy for 15 years, after signing an agreement with Zenith Energy.

The latest headlines from Business News including Perth's proposed causeway bridge, Mineral Resources and new work for GenusPlus.

The local share market has fallen 1.54 per cent after Japan's ultra-dovish central bank unexpectedly eased its attempts to control bond yields.

Duratec and Monadelphous have both secured contracts on BHP's iron ore sites as part of a suite of new work.

The board of ASX-listed oil and gas company Norwest Energy will wait until the new year to cast its verdict on Chris Ellison’s offer for the business amid fierce competition for Perth Basin assets.

The Market Herald managing director Jag Sanger has resigned following an attempt by the company board to oust him.

GenusPlus has won a $15 million contract with Fortescue Future Industries to build a substation at the group's proposed Green Energy Manufacturing Centre in Queensland.

Woodside Energy and North West Shelf project participants have agreed to process up to three million tonnes of gas per annum from Western Gas' Equus project using Woodside infrastructure.

Australia's foreign minister has left Canberra on a plane to Beijing for diplomatic talks with her Chinese counterpart, breaking a four-year diplomatic freeze.

A pedestrian and cyclist bridge over Perth’s Causeway is on track to be finished within two years after an assessment panel’s approval of the $100 million proposal.

Xi Jinping may have reached out to world leaders but is still firmly focused on China’s long game.

Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz will take the helm of the interim National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, which will have five more members, from next year.

St Pat’s marks 50 years as its fundraiser with the National Hotel passes $550,000 in donations.

Limitless: For more than a century, scientists believed the western swamp tortoise was extinct.

Penny Wong heads to China.

Business News' latest headlines on the Warrego Energy bidding battle, ASIC action and a new Toyota precinct.

For me there is one wine that is mandatory on Christmas Day – Australia’s sparkling red.

The local share market has closed in the red for a third straight day, finishing down 0.2 per cent to its lowest close since November 16.

A proposal to clear more than 600 hectares of native vegetation to make way for an expansion at Fortescue’s new iron ore mine will be scrutinised by the state’s environmental watchdog.