Fraser Beattie

Engineering and construction group Valmec has secured a $4.3 million contract for work at Vector Gas’s compression project in Auckland.

The executive chairman of Wembley-based ACI Broking Services has been banned from providing financial services for four years by the corporate watchdog.

Northern Star Resources and Regis Resources have capped off a positive first half of the financial year for gold miners, with December quarter results released today.

Mineral sands miner Base Resources has received a force majeure notice from one of its offtake partners, which will affect an $US11.6 million ilmenite sales agreement.

Avita Medical founder Fiona Wood has stepped down from the company's board as the regenerative medicine developer drives towards the US market.

The federal government will spend $8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on-ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

MSM Corporation International and Department 13 International both debuted on the ASX today, after completing their respective reverse takeovers and backdoor listings.

Mining services contractor Sedgman has told its shareholders to take no action towards CIMIC Group’s $153.1 million offer for all the shares it doesn’t already own in the business.

Citation Resources’ 40 per cent-owned subsidiary Pearl Global has struck a heads of agreement with a Singaporean renewable energy company to fund the development of up to 50 tyre recycling plants across Asia.

Perth-based explorer Carbine Resources has signed an offtake agreement with a chemical and mineral supplier for copper sulphate from its $63 million Mount Morgan project.

Engineering and construction contractor Decmil Group has won another extension to its contract for work at QGC’s Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas project in Gladstone, worth about $35 million.

Shares in embattled iron ore miner Gindalbie Metals plummeted this morning after the company said attempts to clarify funding arrangements with its joint venture partner had been met with silence.

Elemental Minerals has negotiated an extra $US10 million in a proposal from a private equity group for an investment to assist the business advance its flagship Kola Sylvinite potash project.

Perth-based explorer Lithium Australia has attracted its first institutional investor for a big slice of its $6.55 million capital raising.

Gold companies Doray Minerals, Ramelius Resources and Saracen Mineral Holdings have posted better-than-expected production results for the December quarter, with the precious metal miners bullish on the next six months.

Tony Sage’s Cape Lambert Resources has announced plans to undertake its first capital raising since its initial offer, which was completed when the company listed on the ASX 16 years ago.

Austal chief executive Andrew Bellamy is quitting after five years in charge of the Henderson-based shipbuilder.

Gindalbie Metals has gone into a trading halt following a media report suggesting its Chinese majority shareholder and project partner will no longer keep the jointly owned Karara project afloat.

Mining services company Ausdrill has announced plans to sell its underperforming DT HiLoad truck tray manufacturing business, and is in discussions with several interested parties.

The small Western Australian township of Yarloop appears to have been virtually wiped out and three residents are unaccounted for following an unpredictable bushfire, with the Insurance Council of Australia declaring it a catastrophe.

US-focused biotech company pSivida has released pricing details of a $US16 million capital raising, after two weeks of volatile trading in its ASX-listed shares.

Shares in Perth-based Carbon Conscious have surged on news it commenced milk production at a Chinese-owned dairy farm in the South West, with the company planning to expand its cow herd by nearly 500 per cent by 2017.

Rare earths company Arafura Resources has progressed negotiations for the formation of a joint venture which will build a separation plant in South Korea.

Western Australians opted to spend their free time travelling within the state last year, with Rottnest Island visitor numbers reaching their highest on record between July and December.

Home building approvals have suffered their biggest slide in three and a half years in November, with Western Australia’s residential construction sector expected to take a hit over 2016.

Geraldton company Bhagwan Marine is set to expand its presence in northern Australia after striking an agreement to purchase a fleet of vessels for $25 million; a third of the price the previous owner paid just three years ago.

Energy technology company Enerji has landed its first commercial contract and deployment into the Australian market with the finalisation of a power purchasing agreement with Northern Star Resources.

Former Perth International Arts Festival general manager Julian Donaldson has taken the top job at the National Trust of Australia’s WA branch, replacing Tom Perrigo who served in the role for 25 years.

Three directors of Claremont-based Structural Monitoring Systems have taken advantage of the company’s recent share price surge by selling down a portion of their holdings.

Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on record.

A local seafoods business led by Peter Hutchinson and David Lock has had a positive debut on the ASX, after raising over $18 million from investors and completing a major corporate restructure.

The local property market is beginning to show signs of stability as the rental market gains strength, according to the latest Real Estate Institute of Western Australia figures.