Subiaco-based Golden State Resources Ltd has closed the initial public offering of White Canyon Uranium Ltd, after raising its minimum target of $17.5 million.
Perth-based Galaxy Resources Ltd has raised $1.79 million via the early staged exercise of unlisted options, to fund the completion of a feasibility study on its Mt Cattlin tenement in Ravensthorpe.
Premier Alan Carpenter has identified nine items of government legislation he expected the upper house of state parliament to pass in the next fortnight.
Western Australia's Chamber of Minerals and Energy has welcomed the package of skilled migration measures announced by the minister for immigration and citizenship, senator Chris Evans.
Falcon Minerals Ltd non-executive chairman Kerry Harmanis has resigned from the board of the company, with Xtrata Nickel Australasia executive general manager exploration, Peter Langworthy, appointed in his place.
Welshpool-based engineering company RCR Tomlinson Ltd has posted a net profit of $9.13 million for the half year ending December 2007, up 10.7 per cent on the corresponding period in 2006.
Vodafone Australia has appointed Angela Newland as its new general manager for Western Australia, replacing Darren Hayes who has taken up a senior role at the company's head office in Sydney.
Fremantle-based oil and gas services company Mermaid Marine Australia Ltd has reported a net profit of $7.5 million for the six months to December 2007, up 19 per cent on the previous corresponding period in 2006.
An inquiry ordered by agriculture minister Kim Chance has found no evidence that the actions of the former chairman of the Environmental Protection Authority, Dr Walter Cox, constituted misconduct under the Corruption and Crime Commission Act.
Brisbane-based minerals explorer, Diatreme Resources Ltd, has announced a potential billion-dollar discovery of zircon at the company's Cyclone Prospect in the Eucla Basin in Western Australia.
Belmont-based mineral sampling equipment manufacturer, Essa Australia Ltd, has posted a record net profit after tax of $1.9 million for the six months to December 2007, an increase of 23 per cent over the same period in 2006.
Western Australia's industrial land supply is set for a further boost following the start of site works on stage two of the Avon Industrial Park near Northam.
Preliminary data by the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia suggests Perth's housing market was flat-lining in the December Quarter of 2007, with no movement either up or down for the last three months of last year.
The opening of the Perth-to-Mandurah railway may have triggered a major change in the way Western Australians use public transport, with many more people using the system during the holiday period.
Perth-based gold explorer Mawson West Ltd has raised $2 million from the placement of 12.5 million shares at 16 cents per share to RMB Resources Ltd as trustee for the Telluride Investment Trust, and clients of Tricom Equities Ltd.
Moly Mines Ltd has awarded a $1.1 billion, seven year mining and earthmoving contract for the Spinifex Ridge Molybdenum Project to Perth-based contracting group Macmahon Holdings Ltd.
The Property Council of Australia has called on the state government to engage property owners, developers and financiers in the early stages of its $360 million Perth Waterfront redevelopment, by establishing a development authority to steer the project.
The consumer watchdog has launched legal action in Brisbane's Federal Court against Wesfarmers Kleenheat Gas Pty Ltd, alleging misleading or deceptive conduct over the pricing of bulk LPG supplied under contract.
Subiaco-based Paladin Energy Ltd has secured US$167 million ($185 million) in project finance for the remaining funding component of its Kayelekera Uranium Project in Malawi.
The state government has helped to secure major new contracts that will ensure the majority of beef sold to Western Australian consumers in Coles supermarkets is actually produced in WA.
Hundreds of Western Australian patients with life-threatening brain aneurysms and other complex brain conditions can now be diagnosed and treated each year using Australia's best brain imaging machine.
Apex Minerals NL has announced a substantial increase in Mineral Resources at its 100 per cent owned Wiluna and Wilsons deposits in Western Australia as a result of drilling over the past six months.
The Takeovers Panel has decided not to make a declaration of unacceptable circumstances over a decision by Golden West Resources Ltd's major shareholder, Falak Holding, to sell its 7.12 per cent stake in the company.
Perth's most prolific apartment developer, Finbar Group Ltd, has announced a record unaudited after tax profit of $8.0 million for the half year ended 31 December 2007.
The state government has announced the formation of a new Independent Expert Advisory Group to oversee the first round of funding from the $36.5 million Low Emissions Energy Development Fund.
West Perth-based explorer Trafford Resources Ltd and miner Zinifex Ltd have signed a farm-in agreement under which Zinifex may spend $8.5 million to explore and develop lead, zinc and silver deposits within Trafford's Wilcherry Hill project.
Building products company Boral Ltd has announced plans to invest $33 million in a new concrete masonry plant at its Midland Brick site in Middle Swan.
The Federal Court in Perth has today given approval to the merger of Clinical Cell Culture Ltd and Visiomed Group Ltd, the last legal hurdle after Visiomed shareholders unanimously voted in favour of the schemes at a meeting last week.
