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Local lithium play Vulcan Energy Resources has secured a cornerstone investment from Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting, as part of a $120 million placement.

Curtin University spin-out Hyprfire has raised $2.25 million from local investors to commercialise Its cyber security technology.

Mark McGowan will need more than high iron ore prices, federal sugar-hits and COVID-stimulus packages if he wins re-election in March, writes Josh Adamson.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has demanded the state government reveal how it plans to ease the restrictions beyond tomorrow, saying the lack of clarity had caused chaos and confusion.

Subiaco-based SRG Global has secured new engineering and mining work including on Red 5's Darlot gold operations in Western Australia.

A 9 per cent rise in sales to China helped Western Australia hit a record $186 billion of merchandise exports in 2020.

Western Australia's five-day lockdown restrictions are on track to be eased at 6pm tomorrow after the state recorded no new locally acquired cases today.

WA's five-day lockdown has won the endorsement of an academic whose modelling was instrumental to the state government's much-lauded initial response to COVID-19.

BDO's latest edition of the Explorer Quarterly Cash update reflects confirms that the growth in exploration expenditure has been across the board and is not being artificially inflated by significa

Structuring executive pay is no new topic – in fact, some would say it's been in play since the Viking Era when raids began on England in the late eighth century.

Are Non-Executive Directors entitled to extraordinary pay as a result of the pandemic? This is the question which many Boards will be grappling with as COVID-19 places greater demands on key

Western Australia has not recorded any new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the fourth consecutive day, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed.

The state government will soon install 10, solar-powered hand sanitiser dispensers across WA as part of a $1.5 million deal with Henderson-based outfit Matrix Composites & Engineering.

Blue Phoenix Group is planning to invest $20 million establishing a specialist processing facility in Kwinana after striking a contract with the developer of a giant waste-to-energy plant.

Swan Taxis has formed a partnership with Lifeline WA to train drivers as ‘accidental counsellors' and help them talk to passengers who may be distressed.

A correction is surely coming as the stock market moves further out of touch with the real economy.

Labor is standing by calls to extend the JobKeeper scheme despite the Reserve Bank governor downplaying the need.

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Perth has maintained its position as the city with the most empty offices in Australia, with the CBD office vacancy rate hitting 20 per cent.

WA has quietly entered campaign mode for the March state election against a backdrop of empty streets and bushfire destruction.

An increase in many tertiary course fees is rekindling discussion over the comparative value of on-the-job learning and uni education.

The state president of the Australian Medical Association says he is disappointed by recent commentary regarding the transmission of the UK strain of COVID-19 at a Perth hotel.

Shares in Perth-based BlackEarth Minerals have more than doubled after it announced a likely offtake deal and joint venture with a major US company.

In today's COVID-19 wrap, WA records its third day of no new locally-acquired cases, disease experts review their transmission theory and the Liberals slam the state's hotel quarantine system.

A third consecutive day of ASX gains may sound impressive, but an analyst said investors were finding it hard to go higher.

More of Western Australia's recycling will be processed locally after the state and federal governments announced they would help fund nine recycling projects across WA.

Perth-based investment group BPH Energy has raised $9 million from a share placement to increase its stake in explorer Advent Energy and fund a drilling program in NSW.

The state's disease experts are yet to determine how the hotel security guard at the centre of WA's five-day lockdown contracted the virus.

The ranking of WA's largest private companies has changed dramatically over the past decade.

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has restated his support for permanently increasing the rate of JobSeeker unemployment benefits.

With bushfire smoke covering Perth and minimal wind, the state's coal power generators ran at full capacity for a period in Tuesday afternoon's sweltering heat.

Modular building business Fleetwood has raised its half-year earnings guidance to as much as $16 million as the board approved an increased annual dividend payout.