The official launch of Fringe World Festival on Thursday night was interrupted by local artists protesting the festival's partnership with Woodside Petroleum.
Australian shares have reached fresh all-time highs for a fourth consecutive day after Chinese economic data showed better than expected growth for Australia's top trading partner.
Bruce Rock Engineering has increased the number of its facilities in Western Australia with the acquisition of Geraldton-based D-Trans Motor Body Builders.
Local film production company Legend Media Group has gained Chinese approval for its first Australian-Chinese co-production feature film Outback Dragon, slated to start filming in Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Perth later this year.
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International hotel chain Park Regis has pulled out of operating a just-built Subiaco hotel prior to its opening, with the developer behind the project seeking a new operator.
Plans have been lodged with the state's environmental regulator for a $52 million bulk liquids terminal in Kwinana, a facility that would hold liquid fertiliser, cooking oils and caustic soda.
A Perth-based company has developed a new device it says cuts tradies' exposure to silica dust, which has been responsible for the rising incidence of silicosis among building and construction workers.
Western Australia recorded the largest new home sales growth over the quarter of any Australian state, as the broader housing market begins to show signs of a recovery.
Nine WA-linked resources businesses are ranked among the country's top 20 corporate taxpayers, despite a widespread perception the industry does not pay its way.
Rio Tinto has posted a 3 per cent drop in iron ore shipments in 2019 as the Anglo-Australian miner's operations faced disruptions due to cyclone and a fire at a port facility.
Findings released today by Tourism Research Australia show 2.9 million visitors spent a total of $10.9 billion in Western Australia in the year to September 2019, a substantial increase on previous periods.
Australian shares have reached fresh all-time highs for a fourth consecutive day following the signing of a trade deal between the US and China earlier this week.
Gold slipped overnight as the safe-haven metal was hurt by upbeat US economic data that signalled a healthy economy and as stock markets climbed on optimism over the signing of the US-China Phase 1 trade deal.
OPINION: Mark McGowan and his Labor government are sitting pretty entering the final quarter of their first four-year term, with no obvious domestic issues likely to destabilise their approach to the next election in March 2021.
Western Australia's first refund point operators for the federal government's container deposit scheme have been chosen, with 145 refund locations made available in the state.
A court has dismissed a claim of copyright infringement brought by Novus Homes against a homebuyer and a rival builder, ending two-and-a-half years of court proceedings and mediation.
National childcare provider Insight Early Learning has formed a partnership with Fremantle Football Club, placing physical health and wellbeing at the forefront of a new childcare operation known as Freo Kids.
Drilling on phase two of the Julimar-Brunello gas development will begin this quarter as part of a US$4 billion ($5.8 billion) capital expenditure drive by Woodside Petroleum in 2020.
The benchmark Australian stock index has smashed past the 7,000-point level for the first time ever on a wave of investor confidence from a signed trade deal between the US and China after two years of hostilities.
A global investment company based in the Middle East has become the fourth equity investor in a $511 million waste-to-energy project that commenced construction at Rockingham this month.
The state government has begun the tender process for the design, construction and commissioning of the Metronet Morley-Ellenbrook line, despite delays related to other contracts set to deliver the line's build.
Curtin University will get new equipment to support space and health research after receiving $1.4 million in government funding through the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Businesses are facing a challenge locking in gas contracts for major projects in Western Australia, including Coogee's planned $1 billion Burrup Peninsula methanol plant, which the company is now pursuing without partner Wesfarmers.
Caltex Australia has reached an agreement with Alimentation Couche-Tard that will allow it to disclose confidential information in relation to the Montreal-based global convenience store chain's $8.6 billion takeover offer.
Australian shares smashed past the 7,000 point level for the first time on a wave of investor confidence from a signed trade deal between the US and China.
