Simone Grogan

Perth startup turned multi-billion-dollar business Canva is continuing to pursue global expansion by acquiring London-based data visualisation platform Flourish.

Perth Airport has been forced to close some of its terminals temporarily in a bid to keep costs down, as the pandemic continues to smash passenger numbers.

Revised costs to rehabilitate the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park could set Rio Tinto back at least $627 million more than first anticipated.

Hastings Technology Metals has received federal government backing to the tune of $140 million to build its Yangibana rare earths project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.

The federal government has awarded Strike Energy’s 1.4 million tonnes per annum urea development major project status, sending shares up 11 per cent.

Longstanding family business MG Kailis Group has agreed to sell its WA fishing assets to Sea Harvest Group for $70 million, with Alex Kailis to lead the buyer’s Australian branch.

Perth home values lifted 0.6 per cent in the first month of 2022, marking the highest monthly increase since May last year to take the average median house price to $531,243.

A close contact of the initial COVID-19 case reported from BHP’s iron ore operations in the Pilbara has also tested positive for the virus.

An independent six-week review has been launched into power outages that left approximately 34,000 households without power over Christmas last year.

Strengthening commodity prices have helped conclude a smooth quarter for IGO and braced Pilbara Minerals through a period of lower production and labour shortages.

BHP has knocked Commonwealth Bank off the ASX top spot as a scheme of arrangement unifying the miner’s UK and Australian corporate entities takes effect on the stock exchange.

Newcrest shares fell sharply in response to a quarterly update that detailed a 10 per cent lift in production but potential COVID-19 headwinds at its PNG operations.

Brookside Energy has booked a maiden operating profit for the quarter on the back of an 800 per cent surge in earnings following first production at its flagship Jewell Well.

Woodside has elected to withdraw from its Myanmar operations after nearly a decade amid the country's deteriorating human rights situation.

Iron ore producer GWR Group is looking to initiate a move into the battery metals market by acquiring a large stake in Jindalee Resources' Prospect Ridge magnesite project in Tasmania.

Wyloo has stepped up its stake in WA nickel play Western Areas to just over 9 per cent, despite the target agreeing to a $1.1 billion takeover with IGO six weeks ago.

On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Simone Grogan highlights how a Williams-based business is making the case for clean produce here in WA.

Fortescue chief executive Elizabeth Gaines said the company was continuing to assess the impact of uncertainty clouding WA’s border reopening, on the back of a solid quarterly production update.

After two years of negotiations, Rio Tinto and the Mongolian government have concluded a $3.3 billion debt waiver deal to allow the miner to establish one of the world’s largest copper mines.

Shares in West Perth-based Poseidon Nickel were down as much as 10 per cent amid notice that Andrew Forrest’s Tattarang had ceased to be substantial shareholder.

MCS Services has acquired Carlisle-based Highways Traffic for an initial estimated $2 million in a move to diversify from its WA security offerings.

Regis Resources shares fell sharply after a geotechnical incident forced the producer to cut full year guidance.

Subiaco-based gold and copper explorer Carnaby Resources is planning to spend $20 million in new capital on a substantial drilling program at Greater Duchess projects over east.

Fortescue Metals Group will acquire a UK-based engineering firm connected to late F1 team owner Frank Williams in a bid to bring race-bred battery technology to its iron ore fleet.

Centaurus Metals has garnered $75 million in funding from the likes of Sprott Group and Harmanis Holdings to pin down feasibility of its nickel project in Brazil.

West Coast Eagles forward Jack Darling has been excluded from training or playing with the club after failing to meet the AFL’s Covid-19 vaccination deadline.

BHP has been fined $125,000 after a contractor was struck in the neck by a metal shard during maintenance work at Whaleback iron ore mine in September 2017.

Higher sales volumes and LNG prices have dramatically boosted Woodside's revenue, with the company also reversing US$582 million of past impairments..

The miners were both trading in the green after reporting mostly steady production through the December quarter had kept full year guidance on track.

Western Australia's unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 per cent in December, its lowest in 13 years.

California-based financial services giant Capital Group has bought a 5 per cent stake in Fortescue Metals Group for an estimated $3 billion.

Lynas Rare Earths and WA Kaolin have managed to progress their respective Western Australian projects during a quarter fraught with shipping delays.