Edited announcement

A diverse range of sectors and industries have been recognised in the list of finalists for the 2010 Western Australian Industry and Export Awards.

State Parliament has passed legislation allowing major retail stores to trade until 9pm on weeknights.

WorkSafe is investigating the work-related death of a 58-year-old woman in Mandurah this morning.

Mt Pleasant-based GBM Resources has entered into a binding agreement with Swift Venture over the company's phosphate assets located southeast of Mount Isa in North Queensland.

Mutiny Gold has completed a $2.4 million capital raising, enabling the company to make a payment for the acquisition of the Gullewa Gold Project from Canadian listed ATW Gold.

Construction workers employed to do scaffolding, rigging, dogging, forklift, crane and hoist operations will be the focus of a new WorkSafe campaign.

The Condor Tower development on St Georges Terrace, managed by engineering consultancy Pritchard Francis, has won the overall award at the 2010 WA Engineering Excellence Awards.

The market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies which comprise the Deloitte WA Index increased by 2.5 per cent to close at $152 billion for the month of August.

The State Government has announced plans for a review of residential design codes.

Gold company Cleveland Mining Company, formerly Western Kingfish, has closed an over-subscribed, $6 million capital raising.

Singapore-listed Stamford Land Corporation has declined a $134 million offer for the Dynons Plaza in Perth's central business district.

New York stock exchange-listed engineering firm KBR has won a major contract at Rio Tinto and Hancock Prospecting's Hope Downs iron ore joint venture.

The state government says there has been a positive response to its recruitment drive for mining safety inspectors.

The Town of Vincent has accepted a state government offer of a 50-year lease for the recently renamed NIB Stadium at $25,000 per year.

Woodside Petroleum chief executive officer Don Voelte has sold 40,000 of his shares in the company valued at $1.7 million.

Iron ore juniors Crosslands Resources and Pluton Resources have been awarded for environmental excellence at the annual Golden Gecko awards.

RER Group has recorded an $8 million full year profit result mainly thanks to increased revenue from its subsidiary Resource Equipment Rentals.

Perth-based iron ore junior BC Iron has announced it has begun infrastructure construction at its Nullagine joint venture with Fortescue Metals Group, with the mine on schedule to deliver its first iron ore shipment to port by December.

The Federal Court has upheld the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's decision to ban Osborne Park broker Roberto Catena.

Following three tough months Wesfarmers and the state's miners helped the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies, which comprise the Deloitte WA Index, to bounce 5.3 per cent higher in July to $148.4 billion.

Iron ore company Centaurus Metals has been awarded $2 million in damages as a result of legal action it initiated in June last year against Mineração Marsil Ltda, its former joint venture partner in the Liberdade Iron Ore Project in south-east Brazil.

A Corruption and Crime Commission investigation has resulted in a former senior Pilbara public servant today being sentenced to two-and-a-half years jail on two charges of defrauding the Pilbara Development Commission of a total of $72,000.

Constellation Wines Australia has sold its Amberley Estate vineyard to Perth businessman Stephen Tobin.

Investment group Addwealth has agreed to provide financial support and guarantees to Questus Ltd's land development fund, to enable a refinancing of the fund's debts.

Alinta Energy has signed a binding agreement for the sale of the Cawse Power Station to Norilsk Nickel Cawse.

The number of women being appointed to ASX 200 boards continues to grow, with the proportion of female directors of Australia's top listed companies now close to 10 per cent, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Institute of Company

West Perth-based Crusader Resources has exercised an option to purchase a gold project in Brazil for $2.4 million.

"Monster Rort Rushed Through" is the winning slogan in Fortescue Metals Group's minerals resource rent tax (MRRT) Slogan Competition.

WorkSafe has successfully appealed the acquittal of charges against Laing O'Rourke (BMC) over the events surrounding Cyclone George in March 2007.

Justice Graeme Murphy has been appointed as a new Judge of the Western Australian Court of Appeal following Justice Neville Owen's retirement.

The Department of Environment and Conservation has given environmental works approval for construction of an expanded waste treatment facility at Shenton Park to be developed by Perth companies AnaeCo and Monadelphous.

Perth-based property finance group Homeloans has announced a $9 million profit for the year ending June 30.