The market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies remained steady at $75 billion in December but was down by over $100 billion on the same period last year, according to the latest Deloitte WA Index.
The state government has given the go-ahead to a $230 million major expansion of the Joondalup Health Campus, which will double the size of the existing facility.
West Perth-based explorer Northern Iron has signed an initial five-year offtake deal with a subsidiary of the Tata Steel Group over its Sydvaranger iron project in Norway.
Subiaco-based explorer Uramet Minerals has agreed to sell its Barr Creek project tenements in Queensland to the Joe Gutnick-led Legend International Holdings for $750,000.
Perth-based biotechnology company Stirling Products is teetering on the brink of administration as it cans a $960,000 capital raising and enters talks for the possible disposal of its assets.
Perth-based developer Axiom Properties says it is evaluating suitable sites for its business park concept for Coffey International after Pivot Group terminated its agreement with Leighton Properties.
Fremantle Ports' general manager strategic and commercial development Chris Leatt-Hayter has been promoted to chief executive, taking over from Kerry Sanderson.
Perth-based Aspen Group says its revenue stream will be boosted by some $58 million over the next five years following the completion of the Karratha Accommodation Village for Woodside Petroleum.
Great Southern has welcomed a Federal Court decision allowing the appeal in respect of the industry's test case on whether participants in non forestry managed investment schemes should be entitled to claim deductions in respect of carrying on a business
Perth-based office equipment financing firm ThinkSmart will put its United States ambitions on hold as it forecasts a 32 per cent increase in earnings.
VDM Group has been awarded a $32 million contract by the Attorney-Generals Department to develop new freight handling and passenger transport facilities on the Cocos Islands.
The state's Economic Regulation Authority says a re-amalgamation of Verve Energy and Synergy will have adverse implications on the wholesale energy market.
The communications authority has issued a community television trial licence for Perth to West TV, which will provide an analog television service to be known as New Vision 31.
The state government has budgeted $2.4 billion for the Royalties for Regions scheme as it forecasts a net debt of nearly $17 billion in 2010/11, according to the mid-year economic review.
Four years after winning a boardroom stoush, St Barbara chief executive and managing director Eduard Eshuys has tendered his resignation with former Newcrest Mining executive Tim Lehany to take over.
Amid a backdrop of falling base metal prices, Northbridge-based Impact Minerals says it will focus on its Nowthunna uranium joint venture in Western Australia following the state government's decision to lift the uranium mining ban.
The state government will ask the private sector to submit proposals for the expansion of Exmouth Boat Habour, which is increasingly catering for super-yachts and ideally placed to service the oil and gas industry.
Metal recycling group CMA Corporation says it expects a net loss after tax of some $35 million in the first half of this financial year largely on the back of falling commodity prices and a weaker Australian dollar.
Wet weather has put a dampener on Western Australia's harvest, which collected 7.3 million tonnes according to the state's biggest grain handler CBH Group.
