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Apollo Consolidated is selling its entire royalty over a goldmine in Cote d’Ivoire to fund further exploration at the company’s Lake Rebecca project in WA.

Unemployed Australians will receive about $44 a day in welfare support from April.

Shares on the ASX have closed lower, but the Aussie dollar rose as investors tipped it to benefit following forecasts of strong economic growth in the US.

Western Australia’s population grew by 3,569 people in the September quarter, while Australia had its first population drop in a century.

Shares in Decmil have lifted 6 per cent after the Perth company announced its second contract win for the year, for works on a major highway in Queensland.

Sun Brilliance is the latest proponent of an ambitious renewables development, planning a $9 billion green hydrogen project in the Mid West.

The former Midway Taxi site in Mount Hawthorn has sold for $9.1 million, the latest in a series of property sales and developments along the city fringe.

All states except Victoria recorded substantial recovery in state final demand in the September quarter, as social distancing restrictions were eased.

Scott Morrison admits the national vaccine rollout is a "tough" project to deliver, as hundreds of thousands of Australians seek to register with doctors and Commonwealth clinics for their shots.

Scott Morrison has defended his handling of rape allegations against Attorney-General Christian Porter, who is now suing the ABC for defamation.

Property sale settlements across Western Australia recorded 50 per cent year-on-year growth in February, according to digital settlement platform PEXA.

WA Labor appears to have won another seat this afternoon, with candidate Katrina Stratton having taken the lead in the once safe Liberal seat of Nedlands by 1,052 votes.

Engineering company Monadelphous will continue providing crane services to Pilbara miner Fortescue Metals Group under a new, five-year contract.

Northern Star Resources is purchasing a gold project near its Carosue Dam operations from KalNorth Gold Mines.

Scott Morrison has talked up the recovery in employment, which has seen the unemployment rate shrink to 5.8 per cent, while WA's rate was 6 per cent.

Premier Mark McGowan said today he was taking the treasury portfolio to head off a challenge to WA’s GST deal but strongly hinted the role would be temporary.

Ask any parent of a teenage girl and they’ll lament the loss of their little girl.

The state government’s new $25 million Transport Operations Centre has been given the green light this morning, a development expected to form the nerve centre of Perth’s rail system.

Labour market pressures in WA will peak in the second half of next year amid a surge in mining and infrastructure projects.

The federal government has sensationally dumped the vast majority of its own industrial relations reforms including wage theft penalties.

ASX staff drown in a flood of WA floats

Retail spending could grow 10.6 per cent this financial year in Western Australia, Deloitte forecasts, nearly double the national rate.

The nation's biggest bank, Commonwealth, will offer its own buy now, pay later service to customers from mid-year in a move to challenge Afterpay.

Teaching students to have agile minds, to learn skills that can be transferred from subject to subject, between multiple learning institutions and, ultimately from one workplace to the next, are so

The state government will soon remove its trade commissioners based in Indonesia, South Korea and India, leaving only locally engaged staff to represent the economic diversification WA seeks.

The state’s development assessment panel has chosen to postpone a decision on a $17 million grouped dwelling development in East Victoria Park.

An uptick in building activity has led to a series of challenges for the construction industry, including materials delays and increases in contractor rates.

Investors on the ASX removed some risk from their portfolios as the outcomes of the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting on Thursday loomed large over financial markets.

Perth’s urban areas continue to face green canopy loss despite growing awareness of the upside trees can deliver residential projects.

Residential land developers hope the positive market momentum prompted by housing stimulus measures can be extended long term.

Australian authorities have thrown their support behind the AstraZeneca vaccine despite a handful of new allergic reactions and increasing global trepidation.

Strandline Resources has the debt funding it requires for its Coburn mineral sands project after securing about $80 million from a senior secured bond issue.