As editor of Business News, I’m delighted to introduce a new feature that highlights the best of Western Australia. Great for the State is a 12-page lift-out that will be published each month over the course of 2019.
Geopacific Resources has raised $4.3 million via a share placement, with the funds set to advance due diligence in relation to the financing of its $198.5 million Woodlark gold project.
The independent directors of Sydney-based Riversdale Resources have urged shareholders to reject the $2.20 per-share offer lobbed by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting last month.
Tropicana gold project joint venture partners AngloGold Ashanti and Independence Group have approved the development of a new underground mine at a cost of $105 million.
Congested roads around Perth will benefit from $1.6 billion worth of road and rail projects across Western Australia, as Scott Morrison tries to woo voters in the west.
Oil prices slumped overnight after government data showed US crude inventories grew more than expected last week as a Texas chemical spill hampered exports.
Palladium prices plummeted about 7 per cent overnight - the biggest daily percentage drop in more than two years - as investors worried that prices had risen too far too fast and breaks below technical levels triggered automatic selling.
Outer suburbs such as Alkimos, Baldivis and Ellenbrook are continuing to account for most of the growth in Perth’s population while inner suburbs like Mosman Park and Subiaco are shrinking, despite long-standing policies to boost urban infill.
ANALYSIS: As many retailers struggle to deal with the internet revolution, Wesfarmers is undertaking two significant experiments in managing the disruptive influence of online trading to bricks-and-mortar businesses.
Gascoyne Resources has written down the value of its flagship Dalgaranga gold project by $33.5 million, as the company's half-year results revealed its liabilities are greater than its assets.
Lendlease’s Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial has added a second Western Australian property to its portfolio, investing $4.1 million in an industrial property in Gnangara’s Northlink Industrial Park.
Mondium, a joint venture between local contractors Monadelphous and Lycopodium, has secured an early start engineering contract at Mineral Commodities’ (MRC) Munglinup graphite project.
ANZ Banking Group chief executive Shayne Elliott says structural issues and internal processes should cop the brunt of the blame for misconduct across the banking sector, and not a few people with bad intentions.
The United Kingdom’s former ambassador to the Vatican and policy adviser to Tony Blair will replace Celia Hammond as the University of Notre Dame’s vice-chancellor.
A Western Power contractor has been found largely liable for destruction wrought by a 2014 bushfire in the Perth Hills region that was sparked by a fallen power pole.
Lynas Corporation said it will not engage with Wesfarmers' $1.5 billion indicative takeover offer, after the conglomerate launched the bid for the rare earths miner yesterday.
Oil rose nearly two per cent overnight as attention centred on geopolitical factors tightening supplies that are leading to falling exports from Venezuela and declining US inventories.
Gold retreated overnight from more than three-week highs in the previous session after the US dollar rebounded and risk appetite and bond yields recovered as fears eased about a possible US recession.
Apartments developer Finbar Group is moving into property management, a move described by managing director Darren Pateman as the most significant addition to the ASX-listed firm in 24 years.
Shares in West Perth-based Skin Elements have fallen 23.3 per cent today to trade at 3.3 cents each, following its response to two ASX queries after trade closed yesterday.
As a publisher, Business News has benefitted from the massive changes across the media landscape wrought by digital technology during the past two decades.
Woodside Energy and the Australian Space Agency (ASA) have signed a statement of strategic intent and cooperation, which is aimed at promoting technology transfer between the space sector and the oil and gas industry.
