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Pioneer Credit has started to engage with potential buyers of the business and is also seeking to refinance its $220 million debt, after last week’s collapse of the Carlyle Group takeover.

The number of Development Assessment Panels will be reduced from nine to five this week, as plans to streamline Western Australia’s planning system come into effect.

S&P Global Ratings has lowered its credit rating on Virgin Australia to CC from CCC, saying it expects the company's unsecured debt providers will be forced to accept less value than they are owed as part of the company's debt restructuring process.

OPINION: Marketforce chief executive Adam Marshall, who spoke at the inaugural BN marketing and advertising webinar today, mapped out the three key questions organisations need to ask when they evaluate their strategy.

Iron ore exports nearly hit $100 billion in 2019 according to the latest state government data, while sales of gold and LNG reached new highs.

Retail turnover surged by a monthly record of 8.2 per cent in March as consumers rushed to stockpile groceries and office supplies ahead of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Woodside Petroleum has chosen London-based contractor TechnipFMC to develop the Lambert Deep and Greater Western Flank 3 project, in a contract worth up to $US250 million.

Dampier Gold today announced its decision to enter a joint venture with Torian Resources in relation to its promising Zuleika Project gold tenement. 

Curtin University has been named one of the top online MBA providers in the world by QS World University Rankings, the only Western Australian university to appear on the list.

Social distancing measures have changed the way we buy groceries, cook and eat out, leading to growth in home-delivery businesses and innovation by others in the hospitality space.

The owner of Hollywood and Joondalup hospitals plans to raise $1.4 billion to help it deal with the adverse financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with St John of God Health Care also having to manage a sharp slowdown in its normal business.

Early trade has cast a bleak picture for the ASX today, after oil prices continued to slump overnight.

Parent support grows for kids to get back to class next week

Gold prices dropped nearly 2 per cent to a near two-week low overnight, while palladium slumped 15.5 per cent as investors scuttled for cash to cover losses in other asset classes mainly driven by a crash in oil markets as the coronavirus wrecks economies.

Brent oil futures prices plunged overnight, extending oil market panic into a second day as the coronavirus pandemic has obliterated demand for fuel.

The resources sector has enthusiastically embraced a new government-backed app designed to facilitate travel across Western Australia but the freight sector has been lukewarm in its response, despite being touted as a major beneficiary.

The Australian share market has plunged for a second day, falling to nearly a two-week low as US oil futures collapsed into negative territory.

There’s a lot of very positive talk about pandemic-driven politics, where ideology has allegedly taken a back seat to science, and leaders can change position quickly on the basis of new facts rather than being slammed for backflipping.

Roger Cook has revealed which procedures will be given priority when elective surgery resumes next week. WA has reported only one coronavirus case overnight. Regional WA will gain rapid virus testing that will produce results within an hour.

About one in five Western Australians in the hospitality and recreation sectors lost their jobs in a three-week period, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data suggests, while the RBA has flagged an economic recovery could begin in the September quarter with GDP growth accelerating to 7 per cent next year.

A historic overnight collapse in oil markets has not significantly shaken bigger ASX-listed energy producers today, but it does foreshadow continuing uncertainty for one of Western Australia’s largest export industries.

OPINION: Support for the resources sector across the political divide spans decades, and will again be vindicated when WA emerges from COVID-19 restrictions.

Consumer driven demand for grain-based products is good news for the farm sector.

Gold Road Resources remains on track to meet its full-year operating and cost guidance after reporting steady gold production for the March quarter and a healthy financial position.

Kerman Contracting has secured works on a laboratory at Rio Tinto’s Koodaideri mine site in the Pilbara under a new sub-contract with Scott Technology.

Premier Investments’ rent standoff with its landlords will continue at least until May 11, with the retail giant to continue not paying any rent until it can open its network of shops safely.

Power Ledger’s energy trading technology is set to be rolled out across a range of residential projects developed by Nicheliving, under a three-year deal unveiled this week.

IGO will take up nearly one fifth of shares in New Century Resources under a $51.1 million capital raising announced today.

Australian airline Regional Express (Rex) has been guaranteed at least one return service per week to most of its 59 destinations under the federal government’s regional airline support program.

Hard-border closures and a partial lockdown in WA are providing medical researchers with the opportunity to explore potentially life-saving COVID-19 treatments.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is increasing its capacity by 25 per cent in preparation for a potential increase in COVID-19 cases in the regions.

Hold the whiskey and the luxury dresses, WA manufacturing has shown its dynamism by shifting to sanitiser, scrubs and masks.