Nadia Budihardjo

Control of the Tawarri Hot Springs deal has been taken from the City of Nedlands, but the city's mayor is pushing for the state government to reconsider.

Administrators have been appointed to a prominent treatment centre for women and teenagers amid allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

A $220 million plan to revamp Cottesloe's Ocean Beach Hotel will be considered by council next week, with council staff recommending a strong objection to the proposal.

Western Power has been fined $45,000 over its "inadequate" testing procedure which caused hundreds of dollars of damage at a Lancelin property.

The state government has committed about $20 million to prepare an "extraordinary" solar eclipse event for the thousands of visitors expected to visit WA.

Western Australia’s daily COVID cases have jumped by 8,080 overnight, the second time this week the state recorded a daily figure of more than 8,000.

A $22 million warehouse proposal at the Sadleirs Logistics site has been given the green light as Queensland-based transport company Lindsay Australia aims to expand its WA operation.

Western Australia recorded a slight spike of new COVID cases overnight, with a rise in the number of hospitalisations.

Scott Morrison has used his trip to Western Australia to announce grants for eight businesses in the mining and energy sector, with the biggest grants going to two new hydrogen hubs.

The way online platforms collect and use members’ personal information is under scrutiny as the Privacy Act undergoes a reform.

The East Fremantle Oval redevelopment project has been given a multi-million dollar funding boost as its initial cost of $26.5 million has risen to $32.5 million.

Mexican fast food chain Mad Mex holds tight to its WA expansion plan amid five of its restaurants across Perth closing this week.

The Northbridge site which was once home to longstanding Irish pub Rosie O’Grady’s has been sold for close to $4 million.

Five Mexican fast food chain restaurants in Perth have closed their doors after liquidators were called in yesterday.

Construction costs for Momentum Wealth’s proposed six-storey apartment block in Shenton Park have gone up by millions of dollars, nearly 40 per cent up from its initial estimate.

Internet and cloud-gaming company Pentanet has secured a sponsorship deal with West Perth Football Club, in a bid to create a space for esports.

Fixed pay bands across PwC Australia for the next financial year have been released, showing how partners are able to accumulate millions per year.

On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Nadia Budihardjo digs into the curious case of Nextdoor, and weighs the balance businesses must strike between legal and ethical privacy policies.

The state government’s $13.5 million proposal for a new COVID-19 patient facility in Perth’s south has been approved in a swift decision by its own development panel.

Corporate regulator ASIC is alleging a former auditor made a false and misleading statement about collapsed former ASX-listed business Big Un.

The City of Stirling and the state government are still at odds on ways to combat traffic in Scarborough, with the council recently reaffirming its preference for a tunnel.

Randal Humich's Southern Cross Properties WA has submitted a plan for a 22-storey office tower as part of a major facelift of a retail and hospitality strip on Barrack Street.

More than 1,000 COVID cases from last month were only reported to WA Health yesterday as the state records a drop in daily case numbers overnight.

A $15 million seven-storey centre for domestic violence victim-survivors has been approved despite concerns of security in the Northbridge area.

More than 200,000 West Australians in de facto relationships will soon be able to fairly divide their superannuation assets in the event they separate.

Deputy premier Roger Cook said the state government would commit millions of dollars to improve WA's status as a leading "space capital" at a Business News' event this morning.

The state’s peak planning body is still on track to assess the $25 million proposal for the Tawarri Hot Springs site despite the project already rejected by council.

Three former members of Saracen Mineral's executive team have joined their old boss Raleigh Finlayson at gold explorer Genesis Minerals.

WA-based commercial fishing company Austral Fisheries has acquired Brisbane-based seafood processor Moreton Bay Seafoods.

House prices in Perth have risen by one per cent in March, above the national increase of 0.7 per cent, as home values in Melbourne and Sydney dropped.

A plan for a $36 million apartment block in Como, near a busy Canning Bridge train station, received unanimous approval by a joint development assessment panel.

Former Northern Star Resources executive director Raleigh Finlayson will not re-join the board despite an initial plan to return.