Jamelle Agbuis

In lieu of tacking on a fee for plastic shopping bags or banning them altogether, the city of Madison, Wis., will start to offer curbside recycling for the landfill-clogging buggers.

Volvo is looking to partner with another car maker and share platforms in a bid to offer greater international competition in smaller vehicle segments.

Technique could eventually allow scientists to 'print' living forms that resemble human tissue, which could be used for drug testing.

It shouldn't surprise that a mining company has reported that wet weather affected its business in the December half year.

As expected the International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for world economic growth this year and next.

The interim results from consumer and industrial products supplier GUD Holdings just about says it all insofar as current soft business and economic conditions are traveling.

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have shown that while the unemployment rate has been maintained at 5.3%, labour force participation has decreased by 0.3% - more people are simply giving up or bowing out of the labor market.

The increasing number of complaints brought before Fair Work Australia (FWA) has put increased pressure on employers to get their social media policies in order - and to continually update the procedures to stay aligned with current case law.

New research is being conducted into the skills and behaviours needed by supervisors to help workers return to work after injury or illness.

The five-door version of the Volkswagen Up! has been officially revealed ahead of its European launch in March.

Restructures, redundancies and layoffs are now part of the lifecycle of most businesses and organisations are required to act responsibly towards those who have lost their job.

Toyota Australia has axed 350 employees at its Altona plant in Melbourne, blaming the decision on current market conditions that include a high Australian dollar.

Coal processing equipment manufacturer and engineer, Ludowici has agreed to be bought by a Danish firm in a bid worth a total of $267 million, an announcement that saw the shares jump 91% yesterday.

The growth in producer prices slowed in the December quarter, a development some economists reckon gives the Reserve bank room to cut interest rates a fortnight today.

So where will markets head now after the post Christmas rebound continued last week, defying the gloomy forecasts from the World Bank and other gloomy prognosticators?

It will cost as much as some of the huge LNG projects currently planned or underway: at $20 billion and eight years, BHP Billiton's plans to expand its key iron ore port at Port Hedland, off the northern WA coast, will be gigantic by any measurement.

In this month's Industry Interview we chat to Alexis Grant, a journalist and travel author who's the founder of the popular blog The Traveling Writer.

We all like things that are special, that have limited edition, that are unique and of course expensive. But do we actually have enough money to get all what we want.

Over the past several years, astaxanthin has earned a reputation as one of the most potent and powerful nutritional supplements ever made. I first began spreading the word about astaxanthin in 2004 when I toured the BioAstin production farm in Hawaii and published a series of articles and interviews about it.

The PNA Western & Central Pacific skipjack tuna fishery (PNA skipjack fishery) has had its purse seine fishing operation targeting free schools of skipjack tuna certified as sustainable against the MSC environmental standard for sustainable and well managed fisheries.

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The Houston-based Apache Corporation, the oil and natural gas producer, has agreed to acquire closely held Cordillera Energy Partners III LLC for $2.85 billion in cash and stock, adding oil reserves in Oklahoma and Texas that can be exploited using hydraulic fracturing.

Most brokers would assume new clients who walk through the door are coming to them purely to service their finance needs - but not so Nicole Seagren of Vision Finance, based in Melbourne.

Sydney has been unseated as the second costliest city in the world in a new survey of housing affordability.

Consolidation of mortgage aggregators is expected to continue apace in 2012, forcing the industry to assess the future viability of aggregation models.

Australia's multi-speed economy has again been highlighted in a report showing Western Australia far ahead of the pack in output.

Brokers are being warned they may lose business amid the growing number of online white label products - so how can mortgage advisers keep pace with changing consumer trends?

A significant increase in first homebuyers may have been inflated by a last-minute rush to beat stamp duty changes.