Premier Colin Barnett has committed a future Liberal government to build the long-proposed Perth-Darwin Highway adding to a string of expensive transport projects the competing parties have promise
The issue of electricity prices has finally emerged in the state campaign after weeks of both major parties obsessing over major infrastructure projects.
Ports and rail operator Asciano has increased its first half profit by 74 per cent and forecast more earnings growth in the second half of the financial year.
Western Australians are most concerned about future energy needs, rising living costs and the state of the public health system, according to a survey released today.
Labor's $3.4 billion Metronet rail project will be funded by relocating Perth's major stadium to Subiaco and scrapping state government funding earmarked for the mothballed Oakajee port projec
The war of words over the cost of the state opposition’s Metronet heavy rail plan has continued, with Transport Minister Troy Buswell claiming Labor has failed to account for “at least” $1 billion
The state government has provided $15.5 million in subsidies to promote the use of rail for the transport of container freight to and from Fremantle Port.
The state government and opposition have questioned the true cost of each other’s major transport projects, with treasury costings for both parties’ plans still yet to be released despite months of
The state government has committed to spend $70 million upgrading the beachfront at Scarborough and realigning the coastal road near Leighton and Port beaches.
Treasurer Wayne Swan says the federal government is giving infrastructure financing "serious consideration" as a Labor appointee to the Reserve Bank board calls for budget deficits to fund new road
Nedlands-based Forge Group has won a $125 million contract to deliver a new peak-load power station in South Hedland for government utility Horizon Power.
The state government will seek proposals from industry for the design and construction of a new underground bus station to replace the Wellington Street Bus Station, which will be sunk as part of t
Crosslands Resources has appointed Fluor to refine a recent study over the Jack Hills expansion project, which is key to the development of the Oakajee port and rail operation.
Aspiring miners in the Yilgarn region say the results of a financial study support a "modest upgrade" to the Esperance port, to aid increased output from the emerging iron ore region.
Civil and mining contractor Brierty is set to construct roads and truck parking facilities at Rous Head as part of a contract awarded by Fremantle Ports.
The cost of so-called "poles and wires" utility infrastructure has been the biggest driver of electricity prices over the past five years, the Australian Energy Regulator has confirmed.
A strike at Fremantle port has ended sooner than expected after marathon talks broke an impasse between the Maritime Union of Australia and the facility's state-owned operator.
A six-day strike has begun at Fremantle Port after weekend talks between the union and state-owned operator failed to break an impasse over long-term job security.
Perth's fleet of compressed natural gas buses will be kept on the road while an inquiry is undertaken into why one of them was destroyed by a dramatic fire on Friday morning.
