Isabel Vieira

Junior explorer Australian Critical Minerals is preparing to debut on the ASX after raising $5 million through an initial public offering.

Bankwest will close its Subiaco branch after more than 60 years in what is another blow to the bank’s locations across the county.

Troubled builder Modco Residential is facing a court action lodged by a recruitment firm seeking to wind-up the company.

Accommodation developer Fleetwood Australia will provide Rio Tinto with up to $120 million worth of additional rooms at its accommodation village in Karratha.

Jack McGinn and Simone Grogan discuss the state of play for Asian engagement in Western Australia.

A call centre and debt collection company says it has been forced to make 440 employees redundant after losing a contract with a federal government agency.

Car servicing retailer mycar Tyre & Auto, which has 25 shops in Perth, has been fined $1 million by the communications watchdog after the company breached Australian spam laws.

WA’s mining sector employees experienced the largest drop in pay in April following a round of bonuses in the previous month despite the state leading annual wages growth.

Rio Tinto has given the green light on a $733 million investment to bump production at its copper mine in the United States.

Jack McGinn and Liv Declerck discuss an arts program making a difference for at-risk youth.

Perth contractor SRG Global has won a $50 million contract from the Water Corporation to provide specialist infrastructure works.

The nation’s investor landscape is increasingly being made up of women and young people while less Australians are investing in residential property, according to the ASX’s latest report.

The state government has eased the controversial demersal fishing ban for charter businesses operating in the West Coast region, but only if they eat their catches on-board.

Henderson shipbuilder Austal has added a $104 million contract from the United States Navy to its US-division’s order book.

Leading lithium producer Albemarle Corporation has expanded its footprint in the South West after acquiring a neighboring Greenbushes tenement under a $30 million deal.

Hanson Construction Materials has been fined $130,000 after a worker died driving a haul truck that fell off the edge of a quarry pit road in 2019.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has secured a pipeline of contracts valued at $120 million from Rio Tinto, BHP and South32.

Lithium miner Allkem has put a $115 million price tag on the mine life expansion project for its Mt Cattlin lithium operation after lifting its ore reserve expectations by 34 per cent.

SRG Global has notched a $40 million contract to engineer wall façades for a luxury hotel and apartment project on Sydney Harbour purchased by Andrew Forrest.

An advisory firm led by mining veteran Michael Fotios has been engaged by lithium hopeful GreenTech Metals, one week after Mr Fotios was appointed chief executive of Scorpion Minerals.

Renewable energy hopeful Infinite Green Energy and Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group have recruited a third partner to develop a proposed hydrogen project in Northam.

Speculation of a tie-up between two companies in an emerging lithium province scoped by Hancock Prospecting has surfaced after the pair entered a trading halt flagging a joint venture announcement.

Seafarms Group says it is committed to developing Project Sea Dragon after it regained control of the collapsed prawn farm from administrators in March.

Security provider Intelligent Monitoring Group has furthered plans to expand its footprint with the $45 million purchase of sector peer Tyco Australia.

Mining and civil services firm MACA has secured a $850 million contract extension for open pit mining activities at the Gruyere gold mine in the Goldfields.

Land developer Cedar Woods Properties has cut its financial year profit forecast due to construction delays it claims are showing signs of stabilising.

Rare earths hopeful Hastings Technology Metals has secured a potential offtake agreement with a Canadian magnet manufacturer for its Yangbiana project in the Gascoyne.

Costs at global salt producer K+S Group’s Ashburton project near Onslow have blown out by more than $400 million following revised costs and inflationary pressures.

Former premier Colin Barnett, scientists Carol Bower and David Blacker and mining executive Philip Crabb are among the 112 Western Australians recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List for 2023.

The mining industry has recorded the largest decrease in business turnover in April driven by a drop in coal and iron ore prices and exports.

Fortescue Future Industries and Tivan are among the five companies to secure land agreements with the Northern Territory government for its energy development precinct.

Fremantle Ports chair Chris Sutherland has been appointed president of Fremantle Football Club, succeeding Dale Alcock.