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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.

Providers need to think outside the box to secure and retain staff.

Senior journalist Matt Mckenzie talks about Business News' latest rich list and delves into what went into this year's edition.

The local share market has advanced 0.7 per cent after a softer-than-expected inflation readout in the US ahead of the final Fed meeting of 2022.

A former Perth financial adviser has been sentenced to three years in prison over allegations that he took out $35,000 from his First Nations clients' superannuation funds.

Australia's multi-billion-dollar pipeline of new highways, railway upgrades and other projects is under threat from rising costs and acute labour shortages.

Several Perth-based startups are supporting young people on their way to employment.

A $20 million plan to rebuild the City of Subiaco's council chambers on Rokeby Road is underway after a fire and other structural issues prompted the council to act.

Chris Sutherland has been named as the new Fremantle Ports Authority chair, Ports Minister Rita Saffioti announced this morning.

When Kent Egerton-Warburton started writing software in the early 1980s, little did he know that the language he was using was far more readily understood in the bush than the BASIC code he used.

Revealed: New numbers offer the clearest picture yet inside Griffin Coal's finances, with liquidators suspecting the miner may have been insolvent for two years before its September collapse.

Second-generation business Quickmail has survived and subsequently thrived through a very disruptive cycle, the arrival of the internet and the subsequent digitisation of communications and marketi

Regional accommodation provider G'Day Group is set to rebrand the Wintersun Caravan Park to Discovery Parks as part of its expansion.

Santos has signed up to buy gas from Strike Energy and Talon Energy's Wayerling gas field development under a new supply agreement.

Tributes to advertising campaigns adorn Betts Group's Osborne Park office, an addition to the otherwise humble accommodation that suggests the business puts its flair into marketing its wares – dress and fashion shoes.

Old or emerging, disruptions to dynasties have the potential to make or break their businesses.

UPDATE: Administrators for Clough have found a new buyer in Webuild, the company that pulled out of a lifeline deal to save the Perth engineer just over a week ago.

Shares in St Barbara and Genesis Minerals have both risen strongly today in a rare example of both parties to a takeover deal gaining from the transaction.

The engineering, construction and services company is set to move to Westralia Square, following a deal with GDI Property Group.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has failed in its bid to delay a Supreme Court trial over royalties from the Hope Downs tenements.

Today's cabinet makeover includes big jobs for new ministers, significant shifts for senior government figures but, notably, no changes to the premier's substantial workload.

Councillors appear to be having more favourable outcomes through the Joint Development Assessment Panel process.

Woolworths has raised $636 million in a selldown of shares in alcohol retailer, hotel and poker machine operator Endeavour Group.

Costs and labour shortages burden WA companies

Senior journalist Claire Tyrrell talks about her recent coverage of Dorado Property.

The local bourse has clawed back most of Monday's losses as traders await more US inflation data that will be released in the wee hours.

Mincor Resources is on track to receive $55 million to advance development at its nickel operations.

Shares in Julimar explorer Chalice Mining have sunk after investors were told they would need to wait another quarter to see a scoping study for the project.