Coote Industrial will be able to make a start on its growth objectives after it received a $44 million payment from Greentrains while it enters into a major shareholding deal with Elphinstone Group.
Australasian Resources has stepped up negotiations with other companies after finance talks with Shougang Corporation over a $2.7 billion iron ore project in the Pilbara collapsed.
Trading of shares in Compass Hotel Group, which owns a number of pubs in Western Australia, has been suspended after three out of four board members suddenly announced their resignations.
Nickel miner Panoramic Resources has confirmed it is running the ruler over Barrick Gold's Osborne copper-gold mine in Queensland as part of its acquisition plans.
PERTH toy company Brainytoys is poised for a major change following a $1.5 million helping hand and the appointment of three new directors, including a former West Coast Eagles managing director.
THE median house price in Perth has risen by 3.5 per cent, or $15,000, in the June quarter as owners traded up to more expensive homes, while the rental market's vacancy rate is now higher than normal, new data shows.
Staff at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank have been asked to take 10 days unpaid leave as part of a short-term measure to reduce costs in the current economic climate.
Dioro Exploration has urged shareholders to reject a sweetened takeover offer from Avoca Resources, adding it had entered into confidential negotiations with third parties.
A $12 million solar power station to be built in Kalgoorlie has been scrapped after the company behind the operation, Solar Systems, could not get federal funding.
Two Perth-based resource companies have today entered deals to acquire assets in South Africa with Continental Capital acquiring a coal mine for $24 million while Coal of Africa will buy the remaining interest in a coal company.
West Perth-based Azure Minerals has completed an initial evaluation of its Promontorio copper-gold-silver project in Mexico which has an estimated capital cost of $US27.3 million ($A35 million).
Acquisitive Cape Lambert Iron Ore has revealed further details of its takeover bid for Corvette Resources, with the offer valued at a total of $16.2 million.
A complaint has been lodged with the corruption watchdog against Premier Colin Barnett for alleged misconduct over the removal of a Peppermint Grove property from the state heritage list.
West Perth-based Epsilon Energy has entered a joint venture deal over its Mardie iron ore project near Dampier with private company Platypus Resources.
The state opposition has called on the government to explain a $16 million funding hole for the $880 million East Perth Riverside redevelopment project, which is competing with two other major Perth city projects for investment capital.
Avoca Resources says it is surprised that target Dioro Exploration has not provided a recommendation to its takeover bid as it today declared the offer unconditional.
VDM Group has sold the surplus assets of its subsidiary Civmec, including the name, for more than $2 million as part of the group's restructure and consolidation strategy.
The corporate watchdog has permanently banned former Hogan and Partners Stockbrokers employee Jonathan Kur after he lost more than $9 million of clients' money.
One month after striking a deal with Poseidon Nickel, West Perth-based Triton Gold has opened its initial public offer that is aiming to raise up to $6.5 million.
Stockbroking firm Tricom Equities has been slapped with a record $1.35 million fine for "blatant and unmistakable" market manipulation spanning three years.
The median house price in Perth has risen by 3.5 per cent, or $15,000, in the June quarter as more owners traded up to more expensive homes while the rental market's vacancy rate is now higher than normal, new data shows.
Property developer Finbar Group says it anticipates its 2009 financial year profit to reach a record $19 million, a 55 per cent jump on the previous year.
Most Western Australians believe the local economy will strengthen in the coming year, according to an inaugural survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA and Curtin University.
Gold miner St Barbara has confirmed it will stop open pit mining work at its Southern Cross mine in Western Australia by the end of the month as it looks at options to fund the redemption of $77 million of convertible notes.
West Perth-based oil and gas explorer GB Energy has launched legal action against wave energy developer Protean Power and two of its directors over an earn in agreement.
The state's unemployment rate has climbed to a seasonally adjusted 5.1 per cent in June from an upwardly revised 5 per cent recorded the previous month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
