Simone Grogan

The ASX will have to strengthen its governance following ASIC’s investigation into a major trading outage that forced the exchange to shut down for a day in November last year.

Pitcher Partners chair Bryan Hughes and his wife Mai are looking to take their fresh food box business to the Australian Stock Exchange via a $6 million IPO.

Osborne Park-based Northfleet Transport has bought Kwik Logistics less than two weeks after the transport and crane hire business fell into the hands of administrators.

Great Boulder Resources has lodged a prospectus to raise funds for copper-nickel-cobalt spin-out, Cosmo Metals ahead of a proposed listing in the new year.

Perth start-up Zipline has raised $6 million in a bid to double its employee base and launch its compliance software products in the US next year.

Northern Star Resources has exercised its right to acquire the 110 megawatt Parkeston power station in Kalgoorlie from Newmont Australia for $131 million ($US95 million).

Hancock Prospecting-owned Atlas Iron is the latest player to reap the benefits of a buoyant iron ore market, posting a $938 million profit for the end of the financial year.

Wide Open Agriculture has landed its first major distribution deal, signing an initial one-year agreement with Woolworths to carry the company’s OatUP brand nationally.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA has condemned “concerning” reports that businesses may be forced to pay tax on grants they received during COVID-19.

Shares in Perth-based medicinal cannabis aspirant Emyria were up as much as 21 per cent after the business revealed a $5 million backing from Andrew Forrest’s investment business, Tattarang.

The Department of Planning is understood to have given the nod of approval to Funk Cider’s planned 5 million litre production facility expansion in the Swan Valley.

Another round of industrial action is set to hit the delivery sector as the Transport Workers Union plans rolling strikes in Western Australia and NSW starting Monday.

Vimy Resources has knocked back a $687 million merger proposal from fellow uranium aspirant Deep Yellow, choosing instead to start a strategic review and open the bidding to other potential buyers.

BCI Minerals is set to receive a $175 million cash injection from AustralianSuper and $110 million from major stakeholder Kerry Stokes to get its $1.2 billion potash project up and running.

Northern Star Resources' chief development officer and general manager will exit the business to take top jobs with Bellevue Gold, adding to a string of departures since merging with Saracen Minerals.

The Catholic health care provider moved from the red into the black over the financial year, delivering a $27.1 million surplus from an $8.7 million deficit.

Former Resolute Mining chief executive John Welborn will become non-executive chair of WA iron ore play Fenix Resources ahead of a $2.3 million investment in the company.

Fortescue Metals Group will supply two helicopters to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of WA in a bid to speed up hospital-to-hospital transfers across Western Australia.

Nex Metals Explorations is taking legal action against joint venture partner Metalicity over two gold projects in the Eastern Goldfields and a subsequent hostile takeover attempt.

Woodside Petroleum’s chief financial officer Sherry Duhe is leaving the company after four years to take up the same position with fellow ASX-lister, Newcrest Mining.

Multi-billion-dollar lithium play Liontown Resources has sought to quell media speculation surrounding a potential equity raising for its tier-one Kathleen Valley project.

Imdex is set to add more mining software to its arsenal after acquiring a 30 per cent stake in Melbourne-based image analysis company Datarock.

Woodside Petroleum has told the FIFO sexual misconduct inquiry it sacked 12 staff over substantiated sexual harassment incidents during the past five years.

ASX-listed companies have detailed roughly $2 billion in JobKeeper payments spanning the last two financial years, with only a handful making voluntary repayments.

BHP has defended its climate strategy despite involvement in Woodside’s contended Scarborough LNG project, which has been subject to increasing environmental campaigns.

New WA gold, nickel and lithium play 8AU is looking to raise between $8 million and $12 million before landing on ASX boards in early December.

Shares in Australian Vanadium have jumped 17 per cent on the news its battery storage technology will be trialled by IGO.

WA’s jobless rate has fallen to a nine-year low but declining employment indicates workers are withdrawing from the labour force while outstanding vacancies remain unfilled.

Discussions between BHP and Andrew Forrest-backed Wyloo Metals are set to continue until the end of November as the parties look to reach an agreement on sought after Noront Resources.

Lefroy Exploration and Carawine Resources are set to raise nearly $11 million cumulatively after receiving backing from sophisticated and institutional investors.

Ragnar Metals and Jadar Resources are conducting due diligence on tenements across the Pilbara region ahead of potential moves into the WA lithium fore.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison reiterated the federal government’s “technology not taxes” mantra to accompany a new round of proposed funding to develop low emissions technologies.