Special Reports

SPECIAL REPORT: A group of companies offering a faster alternative fixed-wireless internet service has dialled into a niche market.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA companies participated in 175 corporate finance transactions worth $7.6 billion in the September quarter, with one of the most complex and innovative being the recapitalisation of Eastern Goldfields.

SPECIAL REPORT: Appointed to lead the MBA in WA just last month, John Gelavis brings a focus on effective communication to the role.

SPECIAL REPORT: The WA residential builder market remains well down from its 2013 highs, despite homes becoming more affordable.

SPECIAL REPORT: New technology now available in WA uses an algorithm to match appropriate builders to specific blocks of land.

SPECIAL REPORT: When Ryan Zaknich started his Perth walking tours business Two Feet & a Heartbeat 11 years ago, one of his featured routes incorporated stops at each of the city's small bars - all three of them.

SPECIAL REPORT: Accommodation groups are betting on international students returning to Perth.

SPECIAL REPORT: Perth's hotel capacity has increased by about 30 per cent since 2012 and Business News has identified a further 3,150 rooms that are either under construction or committed, as the city's hotel sector is transformed.

SPECIAL REPORT: The state government is spearheading programs to build interest in WA as a preferred leisure destination within Australia and overseas.

SPECIAL REPORT: Several junior gold-focused companies in WA are vying to mature from exploration to production.

SPECIAL REPORT: The state's gold industry is planning to invest more than $1 billion in exploration and development to sustain continued modest growth in production.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA's 30 gold miners achieved a small increase in aggregate output last year with the state's biggest producer, Newmont Mining, making up about a sixth of this at 1.1m ounces, research by Business News has found.

SPECIAL REPORT: China and South Korea are key targets for Jessica Gomes as she seeks to take her skincare business into Asia later this year.

SPECIAL REPORT: Asia and the US are the big targets for Perth designers who hope to break onto the world stage.

SPECIAL REPORT: Business News has been tracking changes among WA's accounting firms for 25 years, including seminal events like the collapse of Andersen and the break-up of the old PKF practice.

SPECIAL REPORT: Gender equity is a key goal for major accounting firms but their track record is varied, especially in WA.

SPECIAL REPORT: Almost a billion dollars worth of waste-to-energy projects are in the pipeline in WA.

SPECIAL REPORT: Moves to reform the Pilbara's electricity sector will improve competition and lower prices, proponents claim.

SPECIAL REPORT: About $3 billion of electricity projects are in the pipeline in WA, but technological change and regulatory pressure are creating investment uncertainty.

SPECIAL REPORT: Despite a host of deals in the Perth Basin during the past year, proponents are battling issues with red tape.

SPECIAL REPORT: Chevron's $5 billion Gorgon phase two project announced in April might be the first in a wave of new oil and gas investments.

The financial performance of WA's major arts organisations has fluctuated widely over the past year, research by Business News has found.

SPECIAL REPORT: Private equity groups and credit funds are delivering a diverse range of financing options for mining projects.

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian companies were involved in 235 corporate finance deals worth $6.9 billion in the June quarter, with new advisory firms playing an increasing role, research by Business News has found.

SPECIAL REPORT: A new corporate advisory firm working from a historic building in West Perth has rapidly made an impact, advising on more than a dozen transactions for public and private companies.

SPECIAL REPORT: AusCann has benefited from a wave of interest in medicinal cannabis for pain relief to be the BN30's top performer in shareholder returns for the year to June 30.

SPECIAL REPORT: Battery metals businesses such as Pilbara Minerals, Altura Mining, and Western Areas have joined AusCann Holdings, Buru Energy and OM Holdings among the best-performing stocks in the year to June.

SPECIAL REPORT: An emerging indigenous contractor has called for a strategic rethink of the sector after a tumultuous year.

SPECIAL REPORT: Spacecubed has been at the vanguard of the growth in Perth's startup community in recent years, with the social enterprise now operating about 5,000 square metres of co-working spaces and a range of accelerator programs.

SPECIAL REPORT: ASX-listed company Veris has transitioned its business from the mining sector to become a diversified outfit focused on key infrastructure projects across Australia.

SPECIAL REPORT: Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation is a registered native title body that has evolved rapidly in recent years to have growing commercial operations supported by strong governance and financial practices.

SPECIAL REPORT: Social enterprise Greenbatch has come a long way since 2016, when it drew up plans detailing a vision to establish a plastic reprocessing facility in Perth.