Staff Reporters

The Department of Housing has selected Diploma Group as its preferred partner for a new $35 million residential and commercial development in West Perth.

Grange Resources says its Southdown iron ore project is a step closer after the Environment Minister gave the go-ahead for the expansion of the Albany Port.

Aspiring gold producer Dampier Gold has closed its $20 million initial public offer early and oversubscribed.

Brumby Resources has announced plans to raise $2.61 million through a share placement which it will devote to its McArthur River Basin tenement in the Northern Territory.

Perth-based engineering and fabrication company AusGroup has foreshadowed an unspecified fourth-quarter loss as a result of writing-down the goodwill in its Singapore subsidiary Cactus Engineering & Trading.

Gindalbie Metals has received final regulatory approval for the Karara Iron Ore Project allowing it to complete the initial drawdown under the US$1.2 billion Project Loan Facility.

Print franchise, Snap, has unveiled ambitious plans to increase revenue by 16 per cent over the next three years.

Mundaring Village Shopping Centre has been sold to a local syndicate for $19.4 million.

One of the state's largest co-operatives, Ravensdown has recorded mixed results for the end of financial year, increasing its Australian sales by 54 per cent but recording $4.8 million loss from operating activities.

General manager of HBF Health, Sheila Hood, has been appointed to the Lotterywest Board.

Atlantic has announced it will pick up the last 10 per cent of the Vanadium Windimurra project in the Mid West allowing it to take control of the project.

Western Australia's best entrepreneurs were recognised at the 10th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards held in Perth last night.

Bunnings Warehouse has recorded a strong upturn in operating profit of 24.6 per cent to $50.4 million for the 2010 financial year.

WA builders are being invited by the state government to bid to construct display homes in Broome.

Ramelius Resources has announced an "unexpected substantial increase" in its profits to $28.7 million for the 2010 financial year.

Copper development company Marengo Mining has completed a $24.1 million capital raising.

West Perth-based Altona Mining has commenced trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after the company changed its name.

Uranium explorer Extract Resources has announced that a resource upgrade at its Rossing South project in Africa has lifted it to the sixth largest deposit in the world.

The CEO of civil contractor Brierty, Stuart Crofts, has resigned following discussions about the company's future direction and strategy.

Retailer Ed Hardy has been placed in voluntary administration.

The state government has chosen Knutsford consortium, including Fini Group, Georgiou Capital and Mainpart Holdings, to partner LandCorp to develop a former industrial site near Fremantle into a residential precinct.

The state government has awarded the Stage Two contract to build the $2 billion Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch to Brookfield Multiplex.

Accommodation maker Fleetwood Corporation has reached a deal to acquire Victorian-based BRB Modular for $56.5 million.

The Coalition has scored highest in resources industry employer group AMMA's comparison of the three major parties' industrial relation policies.

Rental growth remained largely flat during the June quarter, according to Australian Property Monitors' Rental Price Series Quarterly Report.

The Department of Consumer Protection is concerned a growing number of WA real estate agents are breaching the Residential Tenancy Act by requiring tenants leaving a rental property at the end of a lease to give 21 days notice.

The executive director of Seven Group Ryan Stokes has been appointed to the board of the Perth International Arts Festival and Michael Smith as been appointed board Chairman for a further four years.

Liquefied Natural Gas has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with Oil Basins to develop an LNG project in the Kimberley.

Tony Sage's Cape Lambert Resources has taken a significant stake in Chameleon Mining, which is in the midst of a legal battle with Murchison Metals over iron ore tenements in the Mid West.

Spain-focused uranium miner Berkeley Resources has signed a non-binding US$70 million Memorandum of Understanding with Korea Electrical Power Corporation for its Salamanca Uranium Project.

Northern Star Resources has hailed its new gold operation at Paulsens Gold Mine a success with gold poured in July exceeding budget.

AdultShop.com has entered into a memorandum of understanding to merge with Sydney-based Blackfeather in a $20 million deal.