Hope Valley-based National Steel Workplace has been fined $350,000 after an apprentice’s clothes caught fire during welding activities and the company failed to report the incident.

Water filtration business Complete Home Filtration has been named West Australian Business of the Year for its successful growth nationally.

WA author and environmentalist Tim Winton has fired a salvo at the fossil fuels sector, as the face of the controversial Environmental Defenders Office’s Christmas campaign.

Perth-based South32 has withdrawn production guidance for one of its major assets, the Mozal Aluminium smelter in Mozambique, after an outbreak of civil unrest.

The state government has confirmed Emma Cole as the next Western Australian Planning Commission chair, weeks after Business News revealed the appointment.