Adrian Rauso

Osborne Park-based Barbaro Homes has entered liquidation, a week after it ceased operations.

China’s economic slowdown and the lingering threat of a trade war between the world’s largest country and the US are the biggest threats to Western Australia, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA.

Primero Group has been selected as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction contractor for Adelaide-based Core Lithium’s $53 million Finniss project near Darwin.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia edged lower in December, but was higher than the previous corresponding period.

Swift Networks has posted a strong performance update for the second half of last year, with its founders set to receive around $5 million in additional shares.

Shares in Fenix Resources were up by as much as 150 per cent today before falling at the close of trade, after the company announced it had intersected substantial high-grade iron ore via a drilling program at its flasgship Iron Ridge project, located in the Murchison region.

Crater Gold Mining has announced it will raise up to approximately $23 million via a renounceable entitlement issue to improve its weak balance sheet.

Osborne Park-based ServTech Global Holdings has acquired an Italy-based virtual reality and augmented reality software developer in an all-script deal worth around $5.9 million up-front, as the company seeks to turn around its struggling performance.

CBH Group has announced a $128 million surplus for the year to September 2018, compared to the previous year’s result of $248 million which was boosted by a record grain harvest.

Sandfire Resources confirmed today it has approached MOD Resources about a potential takeover, with the target proceeding instead with a $15 million capital raising to support work on its T3 copper project.

Ausdrill has won contracts in Western Australia worth a combined $171 million, including for underground mining services at Regis Resources’ Rosemont project.

TOKN is an enterprise software toolset that connects to multiple legacy systems.

West Perth-based gold and uranium explorer Predictive Discovery said employees at its joint venture with Progress Minerals in the West African country of Burkina Faso were safe, after a geologist working for its Canadian partner was kidnapped from the project site and killed.

Alfresco dining areas will now be fee-free for restaurant and cafe owners within the City of Perth.

A drumline trial set to control and monitor great white shark numbers off Western Australia’s south west coast is set to go ahead, after the Environmental Protection Authority found no concerns.

The total number of home loans rose by 2.4 per cent in Western Australia last November, against a 0.9 per cent fall nationally, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Diversified miner South32 has announced corporate affairs and investor relations executive Katie Tovich will replace Brendan Harris as chief financial officer, who will take over the chief marketing officer role from Peter Finnimore.

Woodside Petroleum has announced December quarter revenue of $1.42 billion, a rise of 43 per cent on the previous corresponding period and surpassing investment bank UBS's estimate of $1.35 billion for the period.

Professional services company Turner & Townsend has been awarded an $8.2 million state government contract to establish and operate a program management office that will oversee Metronet’s program of works.

Jason Burns Homes has been fined $20,000 by the State Administrative Tribunal after the father-and-son building partnership failed to rectify defects at three new homes.

Woodside Petroleum has awarded four contracts, which it is funding without a contribution from venture partner BHP Group, for front-end engineering design activities at its proposed $15 billion Scarborough project.

Albany-based firm Wauters Enterprises has been awarded a $16 million contract for stage two of the city's affordable student accommodation development.

Ausdrill has announced its chief financial officer Theresa Mlikota will leave company within the next three months to undertake the same role at ASX-listed construction materials and lime producer Adelaide Brighton.

Menswear retailer Ed Harry, which employs 93 staff across 19 stores in Western Australia, has been placed in voluntary administration with an immediate clearance sale of merchandise coming into effect as creditors assess the business.

Metals X has announced encouraging production results at its Nifty copper mine in the Pilbara.

Navitas directors have recommended shareholders accept an increased $2.1 billion takeover proposal by a consortium that includes its founder and former chief executive, Rod Jones, who says the new ownership would boost the company's prospects .

Rio Tinto has halted exports of iron ore to some of its customers, after a fire last Thursday engulfed parts of its Cape Lambert export facility, located 40 kilometres north of Karratha.

The Pilbara Ports Authority has short-listed two specialist logistics companies for the development of new general cargo facilities at Port Hedland.

Sheffield Resources has appointed global investment bank UBS as its corporate adviser to help assess potential investments by a strategic partner in the Thunderbird mineral sands project in the Kimberley.

Subiaco-based Cirrus Networks has won a $5 million contract for an undisclosed federal government agency.

Wesfarmers is expected to make a profit of $2.1 billion to $2.3 billion from the November demerger of its Coles supermarket division, and $670 million to $680 million from the sale of its stake in the Bengalla coal mine.

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