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The Australian share market lost further ground in afternoon trading, hurt by falls across financial, telecom and resource companies as the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates unchanged.

Onshore oil producer Buru Energy has secured a native title agreement to further develop its Canning Basin gas resources, two years after its plans for a fracking program in the Kimberley caused a stir.

An accountant who stole more than $2.1 million from his employers and gambled it all away has been jailed in Western Australia for six years.

Galaxy Resources has pushed back the first shipment at its Mt Cattlin lithium mine after several delays and cost overruns, with the company’s directors volunteering to fund any cash shortfall out of their own pockets.

Fastbrick Robotics will put its prototype truck-mounted bricklaying robot into the field to build 11 residential houses under a collaboration agreement with Perth-based builder Archistruct Builders & Designers.

Power Ledger remains in the top spot on Techboard’s ranking table for the second fortnight running, having announced its first commercial deal for the provision of its technology platform.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is content to sit back and assess the impacts of its two rate cuts this year.

It might be wishful thinking, but there are encouraging signs pointing to an end to the crisis that has humbled Western Australia’s nickel mining industry.

Three former McDonald's executives and a Sydney-based private equity firm have taken control of Pizza Hut in Australia.

Western Australia has kept its foot on the brake with the latest figures showing a further slump in new car sales.

JB Hi-Fi has responded to renewed media speculation by saying that it is continuing acquisition discussions with whitegoods retailer The Good Guys but nothing has been finalised.

Toro Energy has received the environmental watchdog’s backing to mine two additional deposits at its Wiluna uranium project, subject to a number of strict conditions.

The Australian share market has opened lower.

The Australian dollar is slightly lower as currency markets were relatively stable overnight.

Crude oil futures has touched a one-week high before paring gains after top producers Russia and Saudi Arabia confirmed they had agreed to co-operate on stabilising the oil market, and raised hopes of limiting output in the future.

Gold has held steady, close to a one-week high touched in the previous session, as the US dollar dipped on receding expectations of an imminent interest rate rise but the yellow metal's gains were capped by stronger global stocks.

Beijing on notice over steel glutChina has been put on notice over its creation of a worldwide steel glut, with the Group of 20 leaders agreeing to establish a global foru

Every Monday Mark Pownall joins Jane Marwick in the 720 Perth Drive studio for an in depth look at two local businesses.

Bryant Stokes, Fiona Kalaf and Steve Harris are among new directors of health promotion agency Healthway, which has been revamped under new legislation after the previous board was forced to step down last year.

University of Western Australia vice-chancellor Paul Johnson and business school dean Phil Dolan have agreed to leave the university, which has also selected the deans of four new 'superfaculties' as part of a big structural shift to be implemented next year. 

Two Western Australian gold hopefuls, Intermin Resources and Primary Gold, have announced earn-in and drilling-for-equity deals, respectively, to progress potential gold projects.

The Australian share market has made some solid gains as the prospect of an interest rate hike in the US in September was pared back following some weaker-than-expected US jobs figures on Friday night.

A group of Perth executives led by lawyer Damien Criddle and former Woodside Petroleum director Rob Cole is due to launch the world’s first trading platform for liquefied natural gas next month.

The state government has spent $3.5 billion over the past decade in the CBD and the Swan River foreshore, generating an expected $8.2 billion worth of spending by the private sector, but making all the pieces work together remains a significant challenge.

Perth-based Optika Solutions has taken home the top prize at the 2016 Australian Information Industry Association iAwards.

New research released by the mining sector today suggests the impact of the WA Nationals' proposed $5 per tonne tax on iron ore production could be greater than originally anticipated.

Global healthcare manufacturer Proctor & Gamble has launched a new product in China that features micro-array technology developed by Perth-based OBJ; however the ASX-listed company was unable to publish the milestone on the stock exchange.

Drilling services company Imdex has tapped investors for $40 million, with plans to raise a further $5 million as it seeks to shore up its balance sheet.

The Reserve Bank is likely to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at its meeting tomorrow, with the main focus set to be on potential signals of future moves.

Woolworths has pressed on with cutting ties with Masters by replacing its directors on the failed hardware chain's board with staff from insolvency firm KordaMentha.

Former Karara Mining boss Dale Harris has taken a leading iron ore role at engineering consultancy firm Hatch.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has entered into an agreement to buy half of BHP Billiton’s stake in the Scarborough offshore gas fields in the Carnarvon Basin for up to $US400 million ($A528 million).