Saskia Pickles

A new lobby group associated with influential players in the power industry has warned the state government it risks a voter backlash at the 2017 poll if proposed changes to the sector trigger higher prices to households.

Murdoch University is seeking to capitalise on WA’s growing health industry with a new course aimed at creating better management and leaders.

Some of Western Australia’s lowest income residents may soon be able to access solar panels and other energy efficient devices following the announcement of a $250 million national package aimed at improving existing and helping build greener community housing.

Young Western Australians are spending up to half the year looking for a job, with many blaming a slowdown in the economy and limited training opportunities.

Local vendors of The Big Issue showed prominent Perth business leaders and politicians what it’s like to sell the street magazine today as part of a campaign to increase awareness of the everyday challenges facing the homeless and disadvantaged.

Neometals shares have closed more than 9 per cent higher on news its Mt Marion joint venture partner Jiangxi Ganfeng has exercised its option to acquire an additional 18 per cent in the lithium project for $US27 million.

Two niche operators in Western Australia's electricity market have accused the state government of being more concerned with protecting its own interests than creating a truly competitive industry

One of Perth’s leading solar power and lithium battery storage providers has struck a strategic alliance with a New Zealand power provider expected to be worth $40 million over the next five years.

An initiative aimed at stamping out begging will redirect funds to a Fremantle homeless shelter, but concerns it doesn’t address root issues remain.

Students across all disciplines at the University of Western Australia this year will be offered courses and internships on issues such as homelessness, mental health and chronic disadvantage.

The head of Community Employers WA, a representative body of 130 not-for-profit employer organisations in the community service sector, has expressed concerns for NFPs over restrictions to Fringe B

Disability services provider Rocky Bay has taken over the services of 45-year-old agency Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Western Australia.

Anglicare WA chair John Barrington has heralded the arrival of two-high profile board members as key elements in the organisation’s efforts to pursue growth in a competitive environment.

As Western Australia and the rest of the world prepare for a hotter, drier climate in the years and decades ahead, Murdoch University researchers are working to determine which areas of the state may be at a greater risk of bushfires.

WA is one of the world’s largest producers of lithium, but a plan to diversify from mining into advanced manufacturing opportunities will be tricky to shore up.

Perth-based international recruitment agency Tecside Group has acquired health and resources-focused Subiaco recruitment firm SeaStone Group for an undisclosed amount.

The wait for top-level competition is over for rugby league fans in Western Australia, with Perth to host its first international Test match in October between the Kangaroos and Kiwis.

Fringe World Festival has gone from strength to strength since not-for-profit organisation Artrage first tested it on Perth audiences in 2011

A faltering economy and an increase in the number of people leaving the state compared with arrivals has failed to halt growth in enrolments at both local Catholic and other private schools, and public schools.

Parents who send their children to private schools in 2016 are paying on average 2.2 times more than they did a decade ago.

Economist and climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has called on the Barnett government to write down the value of coal-fired power stations and other ageing assets, warning that keeping them online threatened its ability to reduce power prices.

City of Perth chief executive Gary Stevenson has been sacked, three years into a five-year contract, following a horror year for the council.

A year after Wheelchair Sports Association WA was staring down the barrel of a $500,000 deficit, the organisation is advancing plans to secure a sustainable income.

In an exclusive Business News survey, leaders of some of WA’s top charities reveal they are more optimistic than last year, despite increasing competition for funds, challenging economic times and charity fatigue.

The recent commissioning of a $120 million research vessel, the RV Investigator, could be a game changer for scientists and the mining sector.

Western Australians donating household items for people affected by the bushfires in the South West have been so generous that St Vincent de Paul Society WA has been inundated with goods exceeding its capacity to deliver them.

Western Australia’s biggest and most productive gas production facility suffered an equipment failure early this morning.

Stephen Pollard reckons there aren’t many industries where uniforms come in size 5XL, but the chief executive of contracting and materials company All Earth Group, who spends his days surrounded by big equipment and a workforce of big blokes, is on a mission to prove less is more.

Western Australia’s top charities have reported an average 4.2 per cent increase in revenue this past financial year, with only two of the top 10 reporting less turnover this year than last.

A partnership led by a Peppermint Grove-based engineering group is seeking to provide budding entrepreneurs with unique training and job opportunities.

Western Australians are falling behind on their mortgage repayments at a higher rate than borrowers in any other state, according to new Reserve Bank of Australia data.

The 12 months to June 2015 has marked the first time in more than a decade that fewer interstate people came to Western Australia than left.