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Former Aperio Resources director Andy Lim has been sentenced to 12 months jail in the Perth District Court on a fraud charge brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

If Western Australia’s small iron ore miners thought all the bad news about falling prices was in the open, they got a shock this week when the two biggest producers, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, launched a war of words, complete with threats of fresh expansion programs.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia shareholders will next month decide if boss Ian Narev can be paid up to $4.7 million in shares as a long-term bonus.

Work has begun on a $30 million redevelopment of student accommodation venue Agricola College in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, partly funded by the state government’s Royalties for Regions scheme.

Shares in Perth-based White Cliff Minerals have slumped on news it had signed a $US4 million funding agreement with New York-based investment firm Magna Equities to accelerate exploration at its Australian and Kyrgyz projects over the next two years.

Shares in Poseidon Nickel surged by over 10 per cent after it announced an offtake agreement with BHP Billiton Nickel West.

Two Western Australian information technology companies have captured the attention of the world’s largest technology firms.

Perth-based Altona Mining announced the completion of its $US95 million Finnish assets sale to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB and has received $US89.2 million in cash as the first tranche of payment.

Consumer confidence in Western Australia is well below levels in the European Union, despite leading indicators suggesting there is a positive story in the state’s economy, according to Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA chief economist John Nicolaou.

New regulations look set to be introduced to cool Australia's booming housing market, but the Reserve Bank of Australia is not yet ready to reveal what they will be.

Treasurer Joe Hockey will pursue more savings across all government departments after conceding defeat over a raft of tough welfare and pension measures.

The Australian share market is lower, following a share sell-off on Wall Street overnight.

Western Australian distillers are making names for themselves internationally with a Margaret River company taking a top award at this week’s world wine and spirits competition held in New York.

Last week’s increase in reported sales was short-lived, with the AFL grand final, Royal Show and long weekend all conspiring to pull the week’s reported sales figure down to its lowest level since the end of July.

Oil prices have extended the prior day's steep losses despite an unexpected drop in US crude stockpiles, amid persistent worries about ample supplies.

Wall Street stocks have finished sharply lower following mixed US economic data amid worsening anxiety over global economic growth and the first confirmed Ebola case in the United States.

The Australian dollar has bounced from the eight-month low it hit after the release of disappointing retail trade figures.

The launch of Western Australia’s first dedicated bourbon distillery has revealed keen interest from investors and consumers in new and fresh concepts.

Half a million Australians have lied or omitted information on a credit application.

West African-focused gold explorer Predictive Discovery plans to raise up to $1.85 million for further exploration, through a placement and a rights issue backed by its biggest shareholder.

The Australian stock market bounced back after a weaker opening as bullish investors decided that it had fallen far enough in recent weeks.

Potential buyers are already keenly looking to snare East Fremantle’s Kaleeya Health Campus, the first state government asset to hit the market from a large portfolio flagged for sale last week.

Tony Abbott is determined to get his government's finances back into balance despite continued objections to some of its May budget measures and the additional costs of beefing up national security.

August saw mixed performance in retail, with turnover up 0.1 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest monthly report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Debate is hotting up over longer-term climate trends, historical temperature statistics and a recent expansion of the Antarctic sea ice.

Australia's consumer watchdog is backing calls for more road tolls and lower fuel taxes to fund new roads.

More than 230 Westpac jobs in Western Australia and Queensland will be axed with the bank planning to close two customer contact centres in the states in March next year.

A significant apartment project has been approved at North Coogee, as development along the Cockburn Coast shifts into its next phase.

A new competitor for car-booking app Uber has emerged out of Sydney and is setting its sights on Perth as its first stop in an Australia-wide expansion plan.

The Department of Mines and Petroleum says it will return millions of dollars in unconditional performance bonds associated with dead tenements to mining companies and individuals through its rehabilitation fund program.

Wesfarmers says it will raise about $864 million through a bond issue under its Euro Medium Term Note program.

Perth's residential real estate market remained largely steady in September, with the Real Estate Institute of WA reporting a 1 per cent rise, while national analysts RP Data said median home price