Perth, Australia News

Murchison Metals shareholders have voted in favor of the company's divestment of key assets to Japan's Mitsubishi, completing the final condition to the $325 million deal proceeding.

Virgin Australia has been forced to cancel flights to the picturesque Cocos Islands until at least Thursday.

The company engages in gold and base metals exploration in Australia. The company's gold and base metal projects are based in the Peak Hill Mining District located in the mid-west region of Western Australia within the highly mineralised Proterozoic Bryah and Yerrida Basins.

For many the digital age has sounded the death knell for letters and postcards, with people putting pens and stamps aside in favour of email and social media.

I want to weigh in today on political campaigns and the March 20 primaries. I know this column isn't the first place you would look for in-depth election coverage, but I have a few thoughts to share.

Australia - the world's biggest island - is surrounding by 8222 smaller ones. That's a lot of islands to choose from.

The question might not be if an insanely tall solar updraft tower gets built, but whose insanely tall solar updraft tower gets built first.

One of Perth's leading hotels, the Novotel Langley Perth, has been put to the market by Tourism Asset Holdings Limited in a move to capitalise on the increasing investor demand for hotel assets located in Western Australia.

More youngsters from Indigenous people are still being held in juvenile detention, despite a slight dip in numbers over the past for years.

Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has been confronted by about 50 protesters who describe a billion-dollar native title deal as a sham.

The company offers support for quality and process controls in a variety of industries including metal analysis, mining, construction, chemical and petrochemicals.

One of the richest women in the world has just bought a large stake in Australia's media industry.

Researchers in Australia believe they have found the oldest known living thing in the world firmly planted in Mediterranean waters off the coast of Spain, half a planet away.

Sun lovers may be raising their risk of skin cancer by avoiding sunscreen due to unfounded fears over nanoparticles, according to a federal government study.

Aussies are vacationing in droves overseas with New Zealand, the U.S. and Indonesia as their favourite destinations.

The owner of Perth's Novotel Langley is looking to cash in on increasing demand for hotels in Western Australia, putting the 253-room hotel to market.

Bolivian authorities say coca growers have whipped four police officers for trying to destroy their coca crop in an application of what the growers call "community justice." Interior Minister Wilfredo Chavez says the four were lashed and sent on their way Monday by peasants in the Yungas region near the capital of La Paz.

These extra cute personalized dinosaur cupcake toppers are by Top The Cupcake in Perth, Western Australia, for Brendyn and Mitch's birthday party , via their Facebook page .

Researched by Industrial Info Resources Australia -- Royal Dutch Shell plc , via Shell Development Australia, has signed a non-binding heads of agreement with Nexus Energy and Osaka Gas Company Limited to commercialise the Crux natural gas fields, with Shell taking operatorship of the project.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After getting permission from the Ethics Commission to take an expenses-paid trip to Australia, Auditor Glen Gainer has turned down the invitation, his spokesman said Monday.