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Seventy-five years after it was established, Eric Hood Painting & Maintenance is continuing to build a strong family legacy.

As online mediation grows in popularity globally, Aaron McDonald says his Judicate platform will make access to justice easier.

The company that manages the Galleria Shopping Centre has been fined $45,000 after it was found guilty of failing to ensure safe access and egress for persons who were not its employees, after an explosion at Galleria in 2015 killed two men and left two others with severe burns.

A Geraldton-based company has installed a roller safety barrier for a trial use, the first in Western Australia, on a ramp connecting Roe Highway to Kwinana Freeway.

Rottnest Island's quokkas have given SeaLink Travel Group a handy boost, with the company's ferry services producing a profit for the first time since the national operator launched them around 18 months ago.

Pilbara Minerals has halted an attempt to offload up to a 49 per cent stake in its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum project, but has executed a binding joint venture agreement with South Korean offtake partner POSCO.

The West Australian Ballet has appointed Woodside Petroleum chief financial officer and executive vice-president Sherry Duhe as chair, following the retirement of Robert Edwardes.

Premier Mark McGowan said he was very disappointed with outcome of the Labor state conference, and on the same day has flagged a removal of an allowance perk for MPs.

Northern Star Resources has announced a $193 million takeover offer to acquire Echo Resources, less than an hour after executive chairman Bill Beament said the company was exploring a range of growth options to take advantage of the high gold price.

Wesfarmers has more than quadrupled its full-year profit to a record $5.51 billion, on the back of post-tax gains of $3.17 billion on the demerger of Coles and other divestments during the year.

The Australian share market has opened higher after a positive lead from Wall Street.

How ten Western Australian companies operate with purpose.

Western Australia's resources sector has evolved a long way from the perception, erroneous or otherwise, that its biggest and most profitable players are only interested in removing minerals from the ground and selling them to the highest bidder.

Main Roads Western Australia chief executive Peter Woronzow is embracing the unique opportunity for community development that comes with managing one of the world's biggest road networks.

All businesses have a purpose to grow and be profitable, but consumers are increasingly demanding companies commit to more than their bottom line for the benefit of society.

Watchdog eyes CBH

Oil prices fell 1.0 per cent overnight on the outlook for increased supply of Iranian crude after France's president lifted hopes for a deal between the US and Iranian governments but losses were limited by optimism surrounding a US-China trade deal.

Gold surged to a more than six-year peak overnight, surpassing $US1,550 in early trade as investors sought safety from a host of uncertainties including heightened US-China trade tensions and a fragile global economy.

Business people could face up to 20 years in prison and their company fined up to $10 million under industrial manslaughter laws to be introduced by the state government.

The Australian share market has fallen sharply again as traders worry US-China trade tensions could worsen further, but gold miners were broadly up as the gold price surged again.

Mining services firms GR Engineering Services and MACA have both recorded weaker profits for the full-year, with GR's bottom line slumping 45.7 per cent and MACA's by 12.7 per cent.

The WA government has turned the clock back by returning maintenance and operations work across Water Corporation's Perth and Mandurah networks to state control.

Curtin's new blockchain lab will serve at the axis between education, industry and tech research.

Woodside Petroleum and Mitsui & Co have started producing oil from the $US1.9 billion Greater Enfield project off Western Australia.

Buildings are still not coming out of the ground at one of Perth's premium pieces of riverside real estate, despite $83 million of investment by the state government in the nearly eight years after a developer was appointed.

The number of solicitors in Western Australia has fallen by 10 per cent over the past four years compared with growth of 15 per cent across the country as a whole, a survey has found.

The franchise sector is regularly under review, yet it has been a successful pathway for many small business owners.

OPINION: Low interest rates create winners and losers, but ultimately are a sign all's not well with the world.

Regis Resources has acquired 35 gold tenements from Duketon Mining for $25 million, as it seeks to extend the life of its flagship Duketon operations.

Damian Stone is joined by leading Perth office leasing agent Greg McAlpine to discuss recent office vacancy figures, market trends, expectations on market rents and incentives and the timeline for future supply.

Fortescue Metals Group's full-year profit has nearly tripled to $US3.2 billion on the back of a period of soaring iron ore prices in the 2019 financial year.

A summary of last week's smaller deals that did not get included in our daily news coverage.