The state's food and beverage manufacturing sector believes the fallout from the gas crisis could be felt for years, not months, as it faces the challenge of rebuilding customer relationships and workforces once normal gas supply resumes.
Three manufacturing companies in Perth with exposure to the booming resources sector have reported good news this month, despite having to contend with increased competition from Asian suppliers.
Sanderson takes on agent general role OUTGOING Fremantle Ports chief executive Kerry Sanderson (pictured) has been appointed as the new Western Australian representative in Europe.
Plans to turn over ownership of the state's $9 billion superannuation manager GESB to 295,000 members have been thrown into disarray, with the body and the government apparently unable to conclude a deal at the 11th hour.
Despite several delays and tussles between stakeholders, a new 75-bed hospital for Vasse in the Busselton region is set to go ahead, with the architectural tender having been awarded to joint venture team, Bateman Grundmann Wilson Architects and Woodhead.
The state government will launch an online gas trading bulletin board on Thursday, but energy minister Francis Logan warned the scheme is not the sole answer to the gas supply crisis.
Perth-based managed investment scheme player TFS Corporation has reported a 60 per cent increase in sales over the 2008 financial year for its Indian sandalwood project.
Plans to turn over ownership of the state's $9 billion superannuation manager GESB to 295,000 members have been thrown into disarray, with the body and the government apparently unable to conclude a deal at the 11th hour.
Perth is the only capital city to have posted a fall in house prices in the year to May, defying a flat national trend, according to data released today.
The resource boom has somewhat helped to cushion Western Australia from a downturn in initial public offer activity, with the state producing five of the 10 best performing floats.
The Environmental Protection Authority has today recommended approval of Grange Resources Ltd's Southdown magnetite iron project in the state's South West region.
Multi-disciplined Australian company OBM International Trade Services has taken a step into the Western Australian market by acquiring WA-based Trade Consultants Australia.
Site works to reconnect Perth with Northbridge will start at the end of this year as the state government today revealed its master plan following three years of research and design.
The state Liberal party has called on the Carpenter government to apologise to the community over the Water Corporation's Kwinana desalination plant advertising campaign, which was found to be misleading by the corporate watchdog.
Macmahon Contractors Pty Ltd has been selected as the preferred proponent for the extension of Reid Highway from West Swan Road to Great Northern Highway.
Visiting WA: Australian Information Industry Association and Women in Technology are to hold a luncheon in recognition of women working in the ICT industry entitled ‘Experiences as a successful busine
A quarter of Western Australian exporters intend to move at least part of their business offshore within the next five years, the latest DHL Export Barometer survey has found.
Just as political correctness, media spin, and obsessive management of the compressed daily news cycle become the norm, a bit of old-style Western Australia has burst back onto the state's dilapidated political stage.
The state's resources boom has created a platform to launch many local specialist software companies into the international marketplace, creating a wealth of opportunities and demand for mining services technology.
Mining engineering students at Curtin University's Bentley campus and the Kalgoorlie-based Western Australian School of Mines may soon be able to access lectures remotely and course content from interstate universities, if a plan to roll out high bandwidt
Young workers in today's mining services and resources industry are indolent and arrogant, according to some participants at the WA Business News mining services forum.
Port Hedland's status as one of the world's largest bulk export ports is set to be reinforced with current and proposed developments leading to further growth in export volumes.
Access to low-cost airlines in Western Australia continues to improve following news that Qantas' budget subsidiary, Jetstar, will start international services from Perth later this year and establish a Perth crew base to support its new services.
MORE than 30 beauty salon and hairdressing employees are set to recoup nearly $40,000 in wages after investigations by the workplace ombudsman found they had been underpaid.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.
At some time or other - probably at a dinner party - most of us have been asked the question about which 10 people you'd want to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island.
CLEAN energy technology group Orbital Corporation Ltd has entered into a funding agreement with the federal government worth $2.8 million to construct and operate an engine testing facility in Balcatt
